車

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See also: 车 and 倝

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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Etymology[edit]

Ideogram (指事): it is derived from a pictogram of a carriage seen from above, with the long vertical stroke representing the axle, the central square representing the body of the carriage, and the top and bottom horizontal lines representing the wheels.

Note that 倝 (as in left part of 朝) is not derived from 車..

Han character[edit]

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Radical 159 車

車 (radical 159 車+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 十田十 (JWJ), four-corner 50006)

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 1239, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38172
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1712, character 34
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3511, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8ECA

Chinese[edit]

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trad. 車
simp. 车

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Middle Chinese pronunciation (車, reconstructed)
Character (車), Pronunciation 1/2

Initial: 見 (28)
Final: 魚
Division: III

Openness: Open
Tone: Level (Ø)

 Fanqie: 九魚切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/kɨʌ/ /ki̯wo/ /kiɔ/ /kiɔ/ /kɨə̆/ /kĭo/ /kiɔ/
Character (車), Pronunciation 2/2

Initial: 昌 (24)
Final: 麻
Division: III

Openness: Open
Tone: Level (Ø)

 Fanqie: 尺遮切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕʰia/ /t͡ɕʰi̯a/ /t͡ɕʰia/ /t͡ɕʰia/ /cʰia/ /t͡ɕʰĭa/ /t͡ɕʰia/
Old Chinese pronunciation (車, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character Modern Beijing
(Pinyin)		 Middle Chinese Old Chinese English
車 chē ‹ tsyhæ › /*[t.qʰ](r)A/ chariot
車 jū ‹ kjo › /*C.q(r)a/ chariot

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

  • Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
  • Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
  • Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
  • Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
  • Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character No. Phonetic
component		 Rime
group		 Rime
subdivision		 Corresponding
MC rime		 Old Chinese Notes
車 1311 車 魚 0 車 /*kʰlja/
車 1315 車 魚 0 居 /*kla/

Definitions[edit]

車

  1. vehicle; car
  2. machine; instrument
  3. † carry in cart
  4. † to machine, to shape with a lathe

Usage notes[edit]

  • 車/车 is a collective term for all types of vehicles with wheel(s). Prefix is added to specify the type of the vehicle. Here are some examples:
    公共汽車 (bus), 出租車 / 計程車 (taxi), 火車 (train), 自行車 / 腳踏車 (bicycle), 貨車 (lorry), 卡車 (truck)

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Definitions[edit]

車

  1. chariot/rook in Chinese chess
車

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
車

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. vehicle

Readings[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

Its kun reading may be used on its own as a word. Its on reading is mainly used in many compounds like 電車 (でんしゃ densha) “train”, and 自転車 (じてんしゃ jitensha) “bicycle”.

Compounds[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

車 (counter 台, hiragana くるま, romaji kuruma)

  1. a car; an automobile; a carriage; a cart
  2. a wheel; a caster

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

車 (cha, geo)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 차, 거 (revised: cha, geo, McCune-Reischauer: ch'a, kŏ, Yale: cha, ke)
  1. (수레 차, sure-): cart; wheeled machinery

Compounds[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

車 (xa, xe, xơ, se, xế, thạch)

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