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Stroke order

Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #159, ⾞ ‎(“cart”).

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/車
• 庫

References

• 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

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 車
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

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 (OC *kaːns) (as in left part of 倝 (OC *kaːns)) is not derived from 車.

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

車

1. ^†chariot; cart
2. vehicle; car   (Classifier: 輛／辆; 部; 架 c; 頂／顶 mn)
3. machine; instrument   (Classifier: 部)
4. ^†carry in cart
5. ^† to machine, to shape with a lathe
6. to tailor or sew using a sewing machine

   車衫 / 车衫 [Cantonese]  ―  ce¹ saam¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to sew clothes with a sewing machine

7. (Cantonese) to drive somebody; to give somebody a ride

   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 ji⁵ce¹ ngo⁵ heoi³ dei⁶ tit³ zaam⁶ aa³? [Jyutping]

   Can you drive me to the MTR station?

Usage notes

• 車／车 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  ―  pram

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

車

車

1. (Chinese chess) chariot; rook

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. vehicle

Readings

• Goon: しゃ (sha), こ (ko) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: しゃ (sha), きょ (kyo) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: くるま (kuruma)

Compounds

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) くるま [kùrúmá] (Heiban - [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [kɯᵝɾ̠ɯᵝma̠]

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

References

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

車 • ‎(cha, geo)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 차, 거 (revised: cha, geo, McCune-Reischauer: ch'a, kŏ, Yale: cha, ke)

• Name (hangeul): 수레()

1. (수레 차, sure-): cart; wheeled machinery

Compounds

• 汽車 (기차, gicha) train
• 自動車 (자동차, jadongcha) car, automobile
• 自轉車 (자전거, jajeongeo) bicycle
• 電車 (전차, jeoncha) electric train, tramcar
• 戰車 (전차, jeoncha) tank
• 風車 (풍차, pungcha) windmill

Vietnamese

Han character

車 (xa, xe, xơ, se, xế, nhơn)

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Compounds

• 車踏 ‎(xe đạp)