車 - Dong Chinese dictionary

chē, jū

vehicle

Pictograph of a war chariot.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

车 (車)

chē

cart, vehicle; carry in cart; car; vehicle; CL:輛|辆[liàng]; machine; to shape with a lathe; Kangxi radical 159

车 (車)

Chē

surname Che

车 (車)

jū

war chariot (archaic); rook (in Chinese chess); rook (in chess)

Most common words with 車

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	车	car
	汽车	car
	车辆	vehicle
	开车	to drive a car
	出租车	taxi

Component uses

Meaning component in 49 characters (16 verified)

軍轉連輕較陣輸載輭軟輪轟輛輩轂𨊠輯轄軌輔輓輿軒輻軸轎軾轍軋輾輒轆轅軻軼輟轡軲軛軫轤輥軔輊轘輬轀轗輂

Sound component in 2 characters (2 verified)

庫斬

Iconic component in 2 characters (2 verified)

輦軎

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

墼

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[t.qʰ](r)A	tsyhae	chē	chariot
*C.q(r)a	kjo	jū	chariot

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 87.6021% of movies

153rd most common character in movies

361st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Simplified	车
Unicode	U+8ECA
Shuowen	“車，輿輪之總名。夏后時奚仲所造。象形。，籀文車。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

季旭昇《說文新證》p.939

漢語多功能字庫

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