in English

chē noun HSK 1
car / vehicle / CL:輛|辆[liang4] / machine / to shape with a lathe / Kangxi radical 159
war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess)

Measure word

  • liàng classifier for vehicles attested
  • road (CL:條|条[tiao2]); journey; route; line (bus etc); sort; kind attested in use
  • ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc attested in use

Stroke order

Le caractère 车 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
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Le caractère 車 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 車, the traditional character: 车 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • “你去哪儿了?”“我去了火车站送我的一个朋友。”

    "Where have you been?" "I have been to the station to see a friend off."

  • “你的汽车是什么牌子的?”“是一辆福特。”

    "What make is your car?" "It is a Ford."

  • “是黑车吗?”我问他。

    "Is it an illegal taxi?" I ask him.

  • “谁在车里?” “汤姆。”

    "Who is in the car?" "Tom is."

  • “这些车是你的吗?”“是的,是我的。”

    "Are these cars yours?" "Yes, they are mine."

  • 8点那班车今天早到了。

    The eight o'clock bus was early today.

  • Jack买不起新自行车。

    Jack can't afford to buy a new bicycle.

  • Jiro好像错过了火车。

    Jiro seems to have missed the train.

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