车/車 chē, jū — a wheeled vehicle: cart, car, bicycle, train; a machine turning on a wheel; (jū) the chariot in Chinese chess

拼音

• chē (first tone, high and level)most common
• jū (first tone, high and level)

a wheeled vehicle: cart, car, bicycle, train; a machine turning on a wheel; (jū) the chariot in Chinese chess

字形拆解

• 车shape partA single pictograph, and a radical in its own right: the traditional 車 is a chariot seen from above — the box, the axle through it, a wheel at each end.

Mnemonic

The traditional 車 is a chariot seen from above: the box of the carriage in the middle, the axle running straight through it, and a wheel at either end. The simplified 车 keeps the axle and one wheel, in four strokes. It is the vehicle in 汽车, 火车, 自行车 and 车站 — and read jū it is the chariot that runs in straight lines across a Chinese chessboard.

A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.

含“车”的词

• 自行车/自行車zìxíngchē (fourth tone, falling)用脚蹬着走的两轮车
• 出租车/出租車chūzūchē (first tone, high and level)供人临时租用的汽车
• 公共汽车/公共汽車gōnggòng (first tone, high and level) qìchē (fourth tone, falling)在城市里运送很多人的汽车
• 火车站/火車站huǒchēzhàn (third tone, dipping)火车停靠的车站