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車

简车 · 繁車

Mandarin · pinyin chē#

Mandarin · pinyin jū#

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

Mandarin · pinyin Chē#

surname Che

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車: chē · cart, vehicle; carry in a cart; Kangxi radical 159
车: chē · cart, vehicle; carry in cart

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1 · che1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

ce1 · geoi1

Cantonese word readings for 車. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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character

(countable) land vehicle; (specifically) car (Classifier: 輛／辆 m; 部 m c; 臺／台 m mn; 架 c; 頂／顶 mn; 張／张 mn-t; 乘 m)
wheeled device, appliance, instrument or apparatus
machine; rig; engine; motor; locomotive; tractor; truck; lorry (Classifier: 部 m; 臺／台 m)
(Cantonese) driving (action of operating a vehicle); driving skills (Classifier: 手 c)
to lathe
to lift water using a 水車／水车 (“old-style machine that is human or animal-powered and lifts water”)
(dialectal, including Cantonese, Wu, Northern Min, Southern Min, Liuzhou Mandarin) to transport using a vehicle
to tailor or sew using a sewing machine
(Cantonese) to hit violently
(dialectal) to turn (one's body, etc.)
(Sichuanese) to rotate; to turn
(Internet slang) pornography; lewd content
Classifier for loads of things carried by a vehicle.
a surname

character

(xiangqi) chariot; rook: 🩫 (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
(chess) rook

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