车

Traditional (Taiwan): 車

chē ㄔㄜ

    • car
    • vehicle
    • machine
    • to shape with a lathe
    • Kangxi radical 159
    • surname Che

Classifiers (measure words)

car

Usually

Less often

vehicle

Usually

Less often

machine

车 itself can also be a classifier

Other words read chē

che with other tones

  • 扯 chě pull
  • 撤 chè remove
  • 尺 chě one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺谱 gōngchěpǔ
  • 掣 chè pull
  • 彻 chè thorough
  • 澈 chè clear
  • 坼 chè crack
  • 屮 chè plants sprouting

Near homophones of che

  • 侧 cè side
  • 测 cè survey
  • 策 cè policy
  • 册 cè book
  • 厕 cè restroom
  • 恻 cè sorrowful
  • 荝 cè plant genus Aconitum, aka monkshood or wolf's bane
  • 畟 cè sharp
  • 茦 cè pointed grass blade

jū ㄐㄩ

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

Classifiers (measure words)

Other words read jū

In the same tone

  • 居 jū reside
  • 琚 jū ornamental gems for belt
  • 拘 jū capture
  • 驹 jū colt
  • 鞠 jū incline
  • 掬 jū hold in one's hands
  • 鞫 jū interrogate
  • 疽 jū gangrene
  • 苴 jū (hemp)
  • 裾 jū garment
  • 锔 jū mend by stapling or cramping broken pieces together
  • 雎 jū osprey

All 24 words read jū

ju with other tones

  • 据 jù according to
  • 足 jù excessive
  • 举 jǔ lift
  • 句 jù sentence
  • 具 jù tool
  • 距 jù be apart from
  • 局 jú narrow
  • 聚 jù assemble
  • 俱 jù all
  • 巨 jù huge
  • 剧 jù theatrical work
  • 惧 jù fear

All 76 words read ju in any tone

The stroke order and parts of 车

    部首 radical
    车
    笔画 strokes
    4
    结构 structure
    独体字
    Practise writing 车this character

    Trace 车, then write it from memory. Each stage is passed five times.

    Writing drills that include 车: HSK 1 vocabulary, part 3: writing drill 7 of 8, HSK 2 vocabulary, part 4: writing drill 2 of 6, HSK 3 vocabulary, part 3: writing drill 4 of 10 and 38 more.

    车 as a 部首

    车 is a 部首 (bùshǒu), a radical. A Chinese dictionary files every character under one of them, and this one files 60 under 车. Look a character up by the 车 radical

    Easy to confuse with 车

    Potential verbal descriptions

    Words with 车

    Starting with 车

    All 86 words starting with 车

    Ending with 车

    All 346 words ending with 车

    Containing 车

    All 77 words containing 车

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