車 (chē)
car; vehicle
How 車 is written
- Strokes
- 7
- Traditional
- 車
- Simplified
- 车
車 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- chē
- surname Che
- jū
- war chariot (archaic); rook (in Chinese chess); rook (in chess)
Common words using 車
- 上車 shàngchē
- to get on or into (a bus, train, car etc)
- 下車 xiàchē
- to get off or out of (a bus, train, car etc)
- 公交車 gōngjiāochē
- public transport vehicle; town bus; CL:輛|辆[liang4]
- 出租車 chūzūchē
- taxi; (Taiwan) rental car
- 列車 lièchē
- (railway) train
- 坐車 zuòchē
- to take the car, bus, train etc
- 堵車 dǔchē
- traffic jam; choking
- 汽車 qìchē
- car; automobile; bus
- 火車 huǒchē
- train; CL:列[lie4],節|节[jie2],班[ban1],趟[tang4]
- 火車票 huǒchēpiào
- train ticket
- 火車站 huǒchēzhàn
- train station
- 車票 chēpiào
- ticket
車 in a sentence
上下班時間，路上的車太多了。
Shàngxiàbān shíjiān, lùshàng de chē tài duō le.
“There are too many cars on the road during rush hour.”
How common is 車?
車 is the 361st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 68.7% of all running text.
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