车 (chē): meaning and stroke order
车 (chē) means car, vehicle, 辆, machine, to shape with a lathe, Kangxi radical 159, surname Che.
车
- Simplified
- 车
- Traditional
- 車
- Pinyin
- chē · jū
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Stroke order of 车
车
- Chē surname Che
- chē car; vehicle
- jū war chariot (archaic); rook (in Chinese chess)
- 4 strokes
- Traditional form: 車
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Meaning of 车
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chē
Traditional 車
- car
- vehicle
- CL:輛|辆[liang4]
- machine
- to shape with a lathe
- Kangxi radical 159
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Chē
Traditional 車
- surname Che
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jū
Traditional 車
- war chariot (archaic)
- rook (in Chinese chess)
- rook (in chess)
Radical and structure
- 车
- Radical 车 (Kangxi radical 159) in its simplified form · 4 strokes
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 车
- 车主 chē zhǔ vehicle owner
- 火车 huǒ chē train; CL:列[lie4],節|节[jie2],班[ban1],趟[tang4]
- 车位 chē wèi parking spot; unloading point
- 车顶 chē dǐng car roof
- 停车 tíng chē to pull up (stop one's vehicle); to park
- 车祸 chē huò traffic accident; car crash; CL:起[qi3]
- 堵车 dǔ chē traffic jam; (of traffic) to get congested
- 公交车 gōng jiāo chē public transport vehicle; town bus
- 火车站 huǒ chē zhàn train station
- 救护车 jiù hù chē ambulance; CL:輛|辆[liang4]
- 停车位 tíng chē wèi parking space; parking spot
- 停车场 tíng chē chǎng parking lot; car park
车 in our stories
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上车以后，他发现自己的座位上已经坐着一位老爷爷。
shàng chē yǐhòu tā fāxiàn zìjǐ de zuòwèi shàng yǐjīng zuò zhe yí wèi lǎoyéye
When he gets on, he finds an old man already sitting in his seat.
From the story The train to Xi'an HSK 3
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“这个小区有两千多辆车，停车位却只有八百个。每天晚上，路边和人行道上都停满了车，救护车有时候都开不进来。”
zhè gè xiǎoqū yǒu liǎngqiān duō liàng chē tíngchēwèi què zhǐ yǒu bābǎi gè měitiān wǎnshang lùbiān hé rénxíngdào shàng dōu tíngmǎn le chē jiùhùchē yǒushíhou dōu kāi bú jìnlai
"This neighbourhood has over two thousand cars but only eight hundred parking spaces. Every evening the roadsides and pavements are full of cars, and sometimes even ambulances can't get in."
From the story The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8
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“上个星期，一个柿子正好砸在我的新车上，车顶凹了一块。我要求很简单：把树砍了！”
shàng gè xīngqī yí gè shìzi zhènghǎo zá zài wǒ de xīn chē shàng chēdǐng āo le yí kuài wǒ yāoqiú hěn jiǎndān bǎ shù kǎn le
"Last week a persimmon landed right on my new car and dented the roof. My demand is simple: cut the tree down!"
From the story The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Where you learn it
车 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 车
- The train to Xi'an HSK 3
- The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).