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Han character
車 (radical 159, 車+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 十田十 (JWJ), four-corner 50006, composition ⿻二申)
- Kangxi radical #159, ⾞.
Derived characters
- Index:Chinese radical/車
- 庫
References
- KangXi: page 1239, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38172
- Dae Jaweon: page 1712, character 34
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3511, character 1
- Unihan data for U+8ECA
Chinese
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| simp. | 车 | |
Glyph origin
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| 車 | *kʰlja, *kla |
| 硨 | *kʰlja |
| 厙 | *qʰljaːs |
| 庫 | *kʰaːs |
Ideogram (指事) : it is derived from a pictogram of a carriage seen from above, with the long vertical stroke representing the axle, the central square representing the body of the carriage, and the top and bottom horizontal lines representing the wheels.
Note that 倝 (OC *kaːns) (as in left part of 朝 (OC *ʔr'ew, *r'ew)) is not derived from 車.
Pronunciation 1
Definitions
車
- † chariot; cart
- land vehicle; (specifically) car (Classifier: 輛／辆; 部; 臺／台; 架 c; 頂／顶 mn)
- machine; instrument (Classifier: 部)
- † carry in cart
- † to machine, to shape with a lathe
- to tailor or sew using a sewing machine
- (Cantonese) to drive somebody; to give somebody a ride
- (Sichuan) to rotate
- (Internet slang) pornography
Usage notes
Compounds
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Pronunciation 2
Definitions
車
車
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Derived terms from 車
Japanese
Kanji
車
Readings
Compounds
Etymology 1
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| 車 |
| しゃ Grade: 1 |
| on’yomi |
From Middle Chinese 車 (MC t͡ɕʰia).
Pronunciation
Counter
- used to count vehicles
Affix
Etymology 2
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| 車 |
| くるま Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi |
From Old Japanese. Appears in the Man'yōshū completed some time after 759 CE, with the ideographic spelling 車.[1]
Assuming an initial meaning of wheel, may be a compound of くる (kuru, related to spinning or rotating, as in 繰る (kuru, “to spin (as in thread)”), 枢 (kuru, “hinge”), くるくる (kurukuru, “spinningly, round and round”), 転めく (kurumeku, “to spin round and round, to rotate; to be dizzy”)) + ま (ma, a suffix added to various parts of speech to form an indeclinable word indicating state).
Pronunciation
Noun
車 (counter 台, hiragana くるま, rōmaji kuruma)
- a car, an automobile, a carriage, a cart
- a wheel, a caster
- something wheel-shaped
- a style of 紋 (mon, “family crest”)
- short for various terms:
- short for 車海老 (kuruma ebi): a prawn
- short for 車懸 (kuruma-gakari): “wheel formation”, a battle tactic where units attack in staged waves in order to prevent the opponent from resting
- short for 肩車 (kata-guruma): riding on one's shoulders, piggyback
- short for 手車 (te-guruma): a handcart, a wheelbarrow
- short for 車座 (kuruma za): sitting in a circle
- (obsolete) during the Edo period, in the red-light district in Ōsaka, a prostitute whose services cost four 匁 (monme) and three 分 (bun) (possibly in reference to the cost of a carriage ride)
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 車椅子 (kurumaisu): wheelchair
References
- 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
Korean
Hanja
Compounds
Hanja
Compounds
Vietnamese
Han character
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Compounds
- 車踏 (xe đạp)
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