車 Radical 159 — a cart, a carriage; any wheeled vehicle; a machine
chē (first tone, high and level)
a cart, a carriage; any wheeled vehicle; a machine
Radical 1597 strokes1 characters
Also written 车 — the same radical in a different position inside the character.
Where the shape comes from
A chariot seen from above: the box in the middle is the carriage, the long vertical the axle running through it, and the bars at either end the wheels. The oldest forms show both wheels; the brush kept one and squared the rest, and the simplified 车 reduced it further to four strokes. It marks vehicles and their parts: 轮 a wheel, 转 to turn, 辆 the measure word, 输, 轻, 较.