车 · chē
cart, vehicle; carry in cart
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
cart, vehicle; carry in cart
- Mandarin
- chē
- Cantonese
- ce1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8F66
- Radical
- 车 · 159
- Strokes
- 4 · Unihan
- Residual
- 0
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
4 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 车
Character connections
Sentence context · 1 matches
公共汽车上发生什么了？
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #403613 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · Text editors: GlossaMatik · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #403611 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- chē
- kCantonese
- ce1
- kDefinition
- cart, vehicle; carry in cart
- kTotalStrokes
- 4
- kRSUnicode
- 159'.0
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+8ECA
- kTGH
- 2013:100
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- chē 0129.040 · jū 0609.080
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- chē 040.140 · jū 183.050
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- chē(1893)