車
简 车 · 繁 車Meanings · ce1
- (verb) 1. to carry (in a vehicle); (slang) (of the expression, "車!") it is a response to show disagreement or disapproval
Meanings · ce2
- car
- vehicle Mandarin classifier: 辆
- a wheeled machine
- to shape with a lathe
- to carry in a cart
- to lift water by a water wheel
- to transport by vehicle
- to sew with a sewing machine
- KangXi radical 159
Meanings · geoi1
- war chariot
- name of a chess piece in Chinese chess
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 車 Chē CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsurname Che
- 車 chē CC-CEDICT · Mandarincar; vehicle; Classifier: 輛 liàng; machine; to shape with a lathe; Kangxi radical 159
- 車 jū CC-CEDICT · Mandarinwar chariot (archaic); rook (in Chinese chess); rook (in chess)
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: che1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 16 senses · 2 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ce1 · geoi1
Cantonese word readings for 車. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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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