Stroke order
車 (Kangxi radical 159,車 +0, 7 strokes,cangjie input 十田十 (JWJ ),four-corner 50006 ,composition ⿻亘 丨 or⿻二 申 )
Kangxi radical #159,⾞ .Appendix:Chinese radical/車 俥 ,唓 ,捙 ,陣 ,連 ,硨 ,蛼 ,軋 ,軙 ,斬 ,軍 ,莗 ,厙 ,庫 ,㾝 ,閳 Additional Derived Characters
𡌄 ,𡝀 ,𡷖 ,𢚷 ,𣵐 ,𣒞 ,𤉖 ,𤥭 ,𪨑 ,𦀺 ,𫌼 ,𬦲 ,𩳛 ,𬵒 𠜥 ,𠜒 ,𨊴 ,𨛩 ,𤭔 ,𩒷 ,𰃚 ,𭶼 ,𫁿 ,𫅨 ,𠣞 ,𣫂 ,𪋀 ,𪢫 Kangxi Dictionary:page 1239 , character 1 Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38172 Dae Jaweon: page 1712, character 34 Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3511, character 1 Unihan data for U+8ECA Old Chinese 車 *kʰlja, *kla 硨 *kʰlja 厙 *qʰljaːs 庫 *kʰaːs
Pictogram (象形 ) – originally a carriage seen from above. In the oracle bone script, there were large wheels on both sides and a sun shade on the top. Later, when Chinese characters were written vertically, the wheels on both sides were simply drawn in strokes and the loading area was marked with a田 (OC *l'iːŋ ). Therefore, it is important to understand that the current character,車 (OC *kʰlja, *kla ) is a vertical depiction of a carriage.
Note that倝 (OC *kaːns ) and朝 (OC *ʔr'ew, *r'ew ) are not derived from車 (OC *kʰlja, *kla ).
Perhaps a loan from anIndo-European language because the horse and chariot were introduced into China around 1200 BC from Inner Asia; compareTocharian A kukäl ,Tocharian B kokale ( “ wagon; cart ” ) (Mair, 1990 ,Bauer, 1994 ), fromProto-Tocharian *kuk(ä)le , fromProto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos , a form of*kʷel- ( “ to turn ” ) . Cognate withEnglish wheel ,Ancient Greek κύκλος ( kúklos ) ,Lithuanian kaklas ( “ neck ” ) , etc.
Sagart and Baxter (2025) specifically pinpoint descent from some reflex ofProto-Indo-Iranian *čakrám . They also suppose that the variation of pronunciations could be attributed to separate borrowing events from Indo-Aryan and Iranian.
An older variant survives in Mandarin軲轆 / 轱辘 (gūlu , “wheel”) (Bauer, 1994 ). Alternatively, the word is a derivation by k-prefix from舁 (OC *la , “to lift”) (Baxter and Sagart, 1998 ); compare the semantic parallel inTibetan ཐེག་པ ( theg pa ,“ vehicle; carriage ” ) (<to support; to carry; to lift).
Pronunciations 1 and 2 are cognate. A similar phonological doublet is處 (OC *kʰljaʔ, *kʰljas ) and居 (OC *kas ) (Schuessler, 2007 ). Pronunciation 2 is traditionally regarded as the older pronunciation.
The sense of lewd content is derived from老司機 / 老司机 ( lǎosījī ) .
Mandarin (Standard ) (Pinyin ) :chē (che1 )(Zhuyin ) :ㄔㄜ (Chengdu ,Sichuanese Pinyin ) :ce1 (Xi'an ,Guanzhong Pinyin ) :chě (Nanjing ,Nanjing Pinyin ) :chě (Dungan ,Cyrillic andWiktionary ) :чә (čə, I)Cantonese (Guangzhou –Hong Kong ,Jyutping ) :ce1 /geoi1 (Dongguan ,Jyutping++ ) :coe1 / coe1-0 (Taishan ,Wiktionary ) :cie1 Gan (Wiktionary ) :ca1 Hakka (Sixian ,PFS ) :chhâ (Hailu ,HRS ) :chaˋ (Meixian ,Guangdong ) :ca1 Jin (Wiktionary ) :ce1 Northern Min (KCR ) :chiá Eastern Min (BUC ) :chiă Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing ): cia1 / cie1 Southern Min (Hokkien ,POJ ) :chhia /cha /ki (Teochew ,Peng'im ) :cia1 (Leizhou , Leizhou Pinyin ) :qia1 Southern Pinghua (Nanning ,Jyutping++ ) :ce1 Wu (Wugniu ) Xiang (Changsha ,Wiktionary ) :che1 Note :
ce1 - colloquial (incl. surname); geoi1 - literary. Gan Hakka Jin Northern Min Eastern Min Puxian Min Southern Min (Hokkien :Xiamen ,Quanzhou ,Zhangzhou ,Jinjiang ,GeneralTaiwanese ,Singapore ,Penang ,Philippines ) (Hokkien :Longyan ) (Hokkien :Xiamen ,Quanzhou ,Zhangzhou ,Longyan ,GeneralTaiwanese ) Note : ki - surname.
Baxter –Sagart system 1.1 (2014 )Character 車 Reading # 1/2 Modern Beijing (Pinyin) chē Middle Chinese ‹ tsyhæ › Old Chinese /*[t.qʰ](r)A/ English 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 車 Reading # 1/2 No. 1311 Phonetic component 車 Rime group 魚 Rime subdivision 0 Corresponding MC rime 車 Old Chinese /*kʰlja/
人力三輪車 車
( countable ) landvehicle ;( specifically ) car (Classifier :輛 / 辆 m ; 部 m c ; 臺 / 台 m mn ; 架 c ; 頂 / 顶 mn ; 張 / 张 mn-t ; 乘 m ) 汽車 / 汽车 ― qìchē ― car 火車 / 火车 ― huǒchē ― train 街 上 一 輛 車 都 沒有 。[MSC ,trad. ] 街 上 一 辆 车 都 没有 。[MSC ,simp. ] Jiē shàng yī liàngchē dōu méiyǒu. [Pinyin] There is not even onecar on the street. 去 車 行買 新 車 [Cantonese ,trad. ] 去 车 行买 新 车 [Cantonese ,simp. ] heoi3 ce1 hong4-2 maai5 san1 ce1 [Jyutping] to buy a newcar at acar dealership 有 車 隣隣 ,有 馬 白 顛 。[Pre-Classical Chinese ,trad. ] 有 车 邻邻 ,有 马 白 颠 。[Pre-Classical Chinese ,simp. ] From: TheClassic of Poetry ,c. 11th – 7th centuriesBCE , translated based onJames Legge 's versionYǒuchē línlín, yǒu mǎ bái diān. [Pinyin] He has manycarriages , giving forth their lin-lin; He has horses with their white foreheads. 阿Q 被 抬 上 了 一 輛 沒有 蓬 的 車 ,幾 個 短衣 人物 也 和 他 同 坐 在 一 處 。[MSC ,trad. ] 阿Q 被 抬 上 了 一 辆 没有 蓬 的 车 ,几 个 短衣 人物 也 和 他 同 坐 在 一 处 。[MSC ,simp. ] From: Lu Xun , 1922.The True Story of Ah Q (《阿Q正傳 》 )Āqiū bèi tái shàng le yī liàng méiyǒu péng dechē , jǐ ge duǎnyī rénwù yě hé tā tóng zuò zài yī chù. [Pinyin] Ah Q was lifted on to an uncoveredcart , and several men in short jackets sat down with him. wheeled device ,appliance ,instrument orapparatus 滑車 / 滑车 ― huáchē ― pulley紡車 / 纺车 ― fǎngchē ― spinning wheelmachine ;rig ;engine ;motor ;locomotive ;tractor ;truck ;lorry (Classifier :部 m ; 臺 / 台 m ) 試車 / 试车 ― shìchē ― to test a new machine( Cantonese ) driving ( action of operating a vehicle ) ;driving skills (Classifier :手 c ) tolathe tolift water using a水車 / 水车 (“old-style machine that is human or animal-powered and lifts water”) ( dialectal , includingCantonese , Wu , Northern Min , Southern Min , Liuzhou Mandarin ) totransport using avehicle 你 可 唔 可以 車 我 去 地鐵站 呀 ?[Cantonese ,trad. ] 你 可 唔 可以 车 我 去 地铁站 呀 ?[Cantonese ,simp. ] nei5 ho2 m4 ho2 ji5 ce1 ngo5 heoi3 dei6 tit3 zaam6 aa3 ? [Jyutping] Can youdrive me to the MTR station? totailor orsew using asewing machine 車 衫/ 车 衫[Cantonese ] ― ce1 saam1 [Jyutping] ― to sew clothes with a sewing machine ( Cantonese ) tohit violently 大 巴 大 巴 車 落 佢 塊 面 度 [Cantonese ,trad. ] 大 巴 大 巴 车 落 佢 块 面 度 [Cantonese ,simp. ] daai6 baa1 daai6 baa1 ce1 lok6 keoi5 faai3 min6 dou6 [Jyutping] to hit his face with multiple violent slaps ( dialectal ) toturn (one's body, etc.)( Sichuanese ) torotate ; toturn ( Internet slang ) pornography ;lewd contentClassifier forloads of things carried by avehicle . asurname 車 / 车 (chē ) is a collective term for all types of vehicles with wheel(s). Additional morphemes are added in front to specify the type of the vehicle. For example:汽車 / 汽车 ― qìchē ― car火車 / 火车 ― huǒchē ― train自行車 / 自行车 ― zìxíngchē ― bicycle嬰兒車 / 婴儿车 ― yīng'érchē ― pramDialectal synonyms of
汽車 (“car, motor vehicle”)
[map] Variety Location Words Formal(Written Standard Chinese ) 汽車 Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 汽車 Taiwan 汽車 Malaysia 車 Singapore 汽車 ,車 Jilu Mandarin Xianxian(Xiaoying) 汽車 Jinan 汽車 Central Plains Mandarin Xi'an 汽車 Sokuluk(Gansu Dungan) 汽車 ,馬什乃 Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 汽車 Wuhan 汽車 Guilin 汽車 Pingle 汽車 Luzhai 汽車 Nanning(Wuming) 汽車 Binyang(Nanjie) 汽車 Hechi(Yizhou) 汽車 Luocheng(Dongmen) 汽車 Tianlin(Langping) 汽車 Dagudi(Maliba) 汽車 Reshuitang(Longling) 汽車 Mae Salong(Lancang) 汽車 Mae Sai(Tengchong) 汽車 Jianghuai Mandarin Yangzhou 汽車 Hefei 汽車 Cantonese Guangzhou 汽車 ,車 Hong Kong 汽車 ,車 Taishan 汽車 Yangjiang 汽車 Guiping(Jintian) 汽車 Guiping(Jiangkou) 汽車 Guiping(Madong) 汽車 Qinzhou 汽車 Qinzhou(Xiniujiao) 汽車 Beihai 汽車 Beihai(Qiaogang - Cô Tô) 汽車 Beihai(Qiaogang - Cát Bà) 汽車 Fangchenggang(Fangcheng) 汽車 Singapore(Guangfu) 車 Ho Chi Minh City(Guangfu) 汽車 Móng Cái 汽車 Gan Nanchang 汽車 Hakka Meixian 汽車 Miaoli(N. Sixian) 汽車 ,自動車 Pingtung(Neipu; S. Sixian) 汽車 ,自動車 Hsinchu County(Zhudong; Hailu) 汽車 ,自動車 Taichung(Dongshi; Dabu) 汽車 ,自動車 Hsinchu County(Qionglin; Raoping) 汽車 ,自動車 Yunlin(Lunbei; Zhao'an) 汽車 ,自動車 Kuching(Hepo) 車 Jin Taiyuan 汽車 Northern Min Jian'ou 汽車 Eastern Min Fuzhou 汽車 Southern Min Xiamen 汽車 ,風車 ,大車 ,電車 dated Xiamen(Tong'an) 風車 Quanzhou 汽車 ,風車 ,大車 Hui'an 風車 Zhangzhou 汽車 ,大車 ,電車 dated Zhao'an 汽車 ,風車 Taipei 自動車 New Taipei(Sanxia) 自動車 Kaohsiung 自動車 ,動車 Yilan 自動車 Changhua(Lukang) 自動車 Taichung 汽車 ,自動車 Tainan 自動車 Hsinchu 自動車 Kinmen 汽車 Penghu(Magong) 自動車 ,汽車 Penang(Hokkien) 車 Singapore(Hokkien) 車 ,風車 Manila(Hokkien) 車 ,風車 Guilin(Biyange) 汽車 Chaozhou 汽車 ,羅里 Shantou 羅里 Shantou(Chenghai) 羅里 Jieyang 羅里 Singapore(Teochew) 車 ,風車 Pontianak(Teochew) 羅里 Singapore(Hainanese) 車 Puxian Min Xianyou 汽車 Central Min Nanping(Wangtai, Yanping) 汽車 Southern Pinghua Binyang 汽車 Wu Shanghai 汽車 ,大眼睛 Suzhou 汽車 Wenzhou 汽車 Xiang Changsha 汽車 Loudi 汽車子 Shuangfeng 汽車
Mandarin (Standard ) (Pinyin ) :jū (ju1 )(Zhuyin ) :ㄐㄩ (Chengdu ,Sichuanese Pinyin ) :ju1 (Xi'an ,Guanzhong Pinyin ) :jǔ (Nanjing ,Nanjing Pinyin ) :jǔ Cantonese (Guangzhou –Hong Kong ,Jyutping ) :geoi1 (Dongguan ,Jyutping++ ) :gui1 Gan (Wiktionary ) :jy1 Hakka (Sixian ,PFS ) :kî (Hailu ,HRS ) :giˋ (Meixian ,Guangdong ) :gi1 Jin (Wiktionary ) :jy1 Northern Min (KCR ) :gṳ́ Eastern Min (BUC ) :gṳ̆ Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing ): gy1 / gu1 / gi1 Southern Min (Hokkien ,POJ ) :ku /kir /ki (Teochew ,Peng'im ) :ge1 / gu1 (Leizhou , Leizhou Pinyin ) :gu1 Wu (Wugniu ) Xiang (Changsha ,Wiktionary ) :jy1 (Loudi ,Wiktionary ) :jy1 Note : gu1 - Chaoyang, Puning, Huilai.
Baxter –Sagart system 1.1 (2014 )Character 車 Reading # 2/2 Modern Beijing (Pinyin) jū Middle Chinese ‹ kjo › Old Chinese /*C.q(r)a/ English 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 車 Reading # 2/2 No. 1315 Phonetic component 車 Rime group 魚 Rime subdivision 0 Corresponding MC rime 居 Old Chinese /*kla/
車 車
( xiangqi ) chariot ;rook :🩫 (Classifier :隻 / 只 c ) ( chess ) rook (Chinese chess pieces )帥 / 帅 ( shuài ) /將 / 将 ( jiàng ) ,仕 ( shì ) /士 ( shì ) ,相 /象 ( xiàng ) ,俥 / 伡 /車 / 车 ( jū ) ,傌 / 㐷 /馬 / 马 ( mǎ ) ,炮 /砲 / 炮 ,兵 ( bīng ) /卒 ( zú ) Others :
→ Vietnamese:xe ( 車 ,“ wheeled vehicle ” ) → Zhuang:ci ( “ vehicle ” ) “車 ”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database) [1] ,香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong ),2014– “車 ”, in教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi ] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien),Ministry of Education, R.O.C. ,2025 .李如龙 [ Li, Ru-long] ,刘福铸 [ Liu, Fu-zhu] ,吴华英 [ Wu, Hua-ying] ,黄国城 [ Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019 ) “车(马~) ”, in莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect ] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press ,→ISBN , page133 .李如龙 [ Li, Ru-long] ,刘福铸 [ Liu, Fu-zhu] ,吴华英 [ Wu, Hua-ying] ,黄国城 [ Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019 ) “车(~马炮) ”, in莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect ] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press ,→ISBN , page140 .車
(First grade kyōiku kanji )
vehicle FromMiddle Chinese 車 (MC tsyhae ).
車( しゃ ) • (-sha )
used to count vehicles 車( しゃ ) • (sha )
vehicle 韓( かん ) 国( こく ) 車( しゃ ) Kankoku-sha South Koreanvehicle train car Synonym: 車両 女( じょ ) 性( せい ) 専( せん ) 用( よう ) 車( しゃ ) josei-sen'yō-sha car for women onlyFromOld Japanese . Appears in theMan'yōshū completed some time after 759CE , with the ideographic spelling車 .[ 1]
Assuming an initial meaning ofwheel , may be a compound ofくる ( kuru ,related to spinning or rotating, as in繰る ( kuru ,“ to spin (as in thread) ” ) ,枢 ( kuru ,“ hinge ” ) ,くるくる ( kurukuru ,“ spinningly, round and round ” ) ,転めく ( kurumeku ,“ to spin round and round, to rotate; to be dizzy ” ) ) +ま ( ma ,a suffix added to various parts of speech to form an indeclinable word indicating state ) .
車( くるま ) • (kuruma ) (counter 台 )
acar , anautomobile , acarriage , acart awheel , acaster somethingwheel -shaped a style of紋 ( mon ,“ familycrest ” ) short for various terms:short for車海老 (kuruma ebi ): aprawn short for車懸 (kuruma-gakari ): “wheel formation”, a battle tactic where units attack in staged waves in order to prevent the opponent from restingshort for肩車 (kata-guruma ): riding on one's shoulders,piggyback short for手車 (te-guruma ): ahandcart , awheelbarrow short for車座 (kuruma za ):sitting in acircle ( obsolete ) during theEdo period , in thered-light district inŌsaka , aprostitute whose services cost four匁 ( monme ) and three分 ( bun ) (possibly in reference to the cost of a carriage ride)Synonyms: see Thesaurus:娼婦 ^ , texthere ^ Matsumura, Akira , editor (2006 ),大辞林 [Daijirin ] (in Japanese), Third edition,Tokyo :Sanseidō ,→ISBN ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute , editor (1998 ),NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary ] (in Japanese),Tokyo :NHK Publishing, Inc. ,→ISBN Shōgaku Tosho (1988 )国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition) ] (in Japanese),Tōkyō :Shogakukan ,→ISBN FromMiddle Chinese 車 (MC tsyhae ).
Historical Readings Dongguk Jeongun Reading Dongguk Jeongun , 1448챵 (Yale :chyà )Middle Korean Text Eumhun Gloss (hun ) Reading Hunmong Jahoe , 1527[2] 又音 챠 (Yale :chyà )Early Modern Korean Text Eumhun Gloss (hun ) Reading Juhae Cheonjamun , 1804수뤼 ( surwi ) 챠 ( cha )
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車 (eumhun 수레 차 ( sure cha ) )
hanja form? of차 ( “ car ;automobile ;vehicle ” ) hanja form? of차 ( “ cart ;wheeled machinery ” ) This reading is used as a standalone word to mean "car ."
FromMiddle Chinese 車 (MC kjo ).
Historical Readings Dongguk Jeongun Reading Dongguk Jeongun , 1448겅 (Yale :kè )Middle Korean Text Eumhun Gloss (hun ) Reading Hunmong Jahoe , 1527[3] 술위〮 (Yale :swùlGwúy )거 (Yale :kè )Early Modern Korean Text Eumhun Gloss (hun ) Reading Juhae Cheonjamun , 1804수뤼 ( surwi ) 거 ( geo )
車 (eumhun 수레 거 ( sure geo ) )
( only in compounds ) hanja form? of거 ( “ cart ;wheeled machinery ” ) 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전/電子字典 .[4] 車
(First grade kyōiku kanji )
FromProto-Ryukyuan *kuruma , fromProto-Japonic *kuruma .
車( く゚るまー ) (ngurumā )
car wheel 車
(First grade kyōiku kanji )
FromProto-Ryukyuan *kuruma , fromProto-Japonic *kuruma .
車( くるま ) (kuruma )
car wheel 車
(First grade kyōiku kanji )
FromProto-Ryukyuan *kuruma , fromProto-Japonic *kuruma .
車( くるま ) (kuruma )
car wheel 車 (xa )
Nôm form ofxa ( “ tosearch , tolook for ” ) .役富貴古媒車拾 Viểc phú quý cổ moixa thắp (please add an English translation of this usage example) Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003 ) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor,Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày ][5] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội 車 :Hán Nôm readings:xa ,xe ,xế
a car (xiangqi) any piece labeled with 車; thechariot /rook . 車
(First grade kyōiku kanji )
FromProto-Ryukyuan *kuruma , fromProto-Japonic *kuruma .
車( くるま ) (kuruma )
car wheel 車
(First grade kyōiku kanji )
FromProto-Ryukyuan *kuruma , fromProto-Japonic *kuruma .
車( くるま ) (kuruma )
car wheel