The Chinese Radical: 车


Hanzi-Trainer
Search:
Meaning
vehicle    车

Explanation Simplified from 車. Showed a hand-cart from the top: axle 丨, loading area 日, two wheels 二. This character 车 is similar to the simplified east 东 =東.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
car, vehicle, carriage
chē, jū

Simplified from 車, which showed a hand-cart from top with an axle 丨, loading area 日 and two wheels 二.  
JLPT HSK 3
to double, to repeat, heavy, serious
chóng, zhòng
A vehicle 車 (= A hand-cart viewed from above: axle 丨, loading area 日, two wheels 二) with further wheels 二 (This vehicle was simplified into: 车)
A vehicle with double wheels is suitable for heavy loads.  
JLPT HSK 3
easy, light, gentle
qīng
Left: vehicle 车 (車= cart from above with axle 丨, load-area 日 wheels 二), right: vertical 圣 (A hand 又 is vertically above the ground 土)
(Pulling) a vehicle by hand over the flat ground [= aligned to the vertical] is easy & light.  
JLPT HSK 3
classifier for vehicles
liàng
Left: vehicle 车/車 (車 = cart with axle丨load-area 日 & wheels 二), right: pair, both 两 (Two connected 一 persons 人 are inside 内, thus both.)
You need vehicles, both of them, to be able to count them.  
JLPT HSK 3
to compare, comparatively, to contrast, rather
jiào
Left: vehicle 车/車 (= cart from above with axle 丨, load-area 日 wheels 二), right: exchange, crossing 交 (= six 六 crosses 㐅)
When vehicles are exchanged, they (first) should be: compared!  
JLPT HSK 3
pants, trousers, drawers

广
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: warehouse 库 (If there is a vehicle 车/車 in a building 广, then in the warehouse.)
Clothes for the warehouse are the pants.  
JLPT HSK 4
to transport, to donate, to lose, to enter (a password)
shū
Left: vehicle 车/車 (= cart from above with axle丨, load-area 日 and two wheels 二), right: to assent, approve 俞 (When the arrowhead gets into the body 月/肉 to cut刂, I am assenting. [cf. arrow 箭])
The vehicle assents, that it shall transport.  
JLPT HSK 4
to turn, revolve, convey, transfer
zhuǎn, zhuàn
Left: vehicle 车/車 (= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 and 2 wheels 二), right: focused to a thing 专 (The skier in the downhill-squat with poles 二 in the hands is focussed.)
In a vehicle you need to be focussed if you turn.  
JLPT HSK 4
to link, join, connect, continuously, including
lián
Left: movement 辶, right: vehicle 车 (=車 cart with axle丨 load-area 日 and two wheels 二)
Vehicles and 'movement' are linked.  
JLPT HSK 5
gather up, collect, edit, compile

Left: vehicle 车 (車= cart from above with axle 丨, load-area 日 wheels 二), right: whisper 咠 (from the mouth 口 to the ear 耳 - But here: 口=1 parking space and 耳=3 parking spaces)
If the vehicles are not each in one space, but in (a group of) three, they are gathered up.  
JLPT HSK 5
contemporaries, generation, lifetime
bèi
Top: not 非 (inverted wings 习), below: vehicle 车/車 (車= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二)
Like the wings of a vehicle, the generations move towards the contemporary.  
JLPT HSK 5
to convey, to load, written record, year
zǎi, zài
A plus + for 'more', a halberd 戈 and a vehicle 车/車
To have more halberds loaded onto the vehicle results in a good convey of the load.  
JLPT HSK 5
disposition of troops, front, classifier for short durations
zhèn
Left: hill 阝, right: vehicle 车/車 (= cart with axle丨, load-area 日 and two wheels 二)
On the hill the vehicles show the troop's disposition and their roll-down is a short period of time.  
JLPT HSK 5
flexible (not hard), soft, weak
ruǎn
Left: vehicle 车/車 (= carriage with axle 丨, load area 日, 2 wheels 二), right: lack 欠.(A yawning person 人 is lacking sth.)
A vehicle is lacking, we need to be flexible.  
JLPT HSK 5
to assist, to complement, auxiliary

Left: vehicle 车 (車= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: just now 甫 (A hand for holding an item 丶 is what I need 用 just now)
A vehicle is needed just now for assisting.  
JLPT HSK 5
chain
liàn
Left: metal 钅/金, right: link, combine 连 (Vehicles 车/車 and 'movement' 辶 are linked)
These [parts of] metal are linked as a chain.  
JLPT HSK 5
army, military, arms
jūn
Top: cover 冖 (here: camouflage), bottom: vehicle 车 (=車 top view with two wheels 二, axle丨and loading section 日)
Camouflaged vehicles belong to the army.  
JLPT HSK 5
to rotate, wheel, disk, ring, steamship
lún
Left: vehicle 车/車 (= carriage with axle 丨, load area 日, 2 wheels 二), right: arrange, set up 仑 (When a person 人 turns into a sitting person 匕, it is well arranged.)
A vehicle is well arranged, if it can rotate with its wheels.  
JLPT HSK 5
warehouse, storehouse, reservoir, arsenal

广
Outside: building 广, inside: vehicle 车 (車= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二)
The building for vehicles is the warehouse.  
JLPT HSK 6
clash, bang, rumble, to shoo away, to expel, explosion
hōng
Top: vehicle 车 (車= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), bottom: Two hands 双
Vehicles, as well as two clapping hands, can clash and thereby shoo away.  
JLPT HSK 6
rail, track, course, path
guǐ
Left: vehicle 车 (車= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: nine 九 [here: two rails 儿 connected with a tie/sleeper 一]
For the vehicles are the rails as their track or path.  
JLPT HSK 6
glorious, splendid, to shine upon
huī
Left: light, ray 光 (A fire 火 on legs 儿 serves as light), right: army 军 (.. with covered 冖 camouflaged vehicles 车/車)
(Signal fires in ancient China) The lights at the army are shining and glorious.  
JLPT HSK 6
to supervise, to direct, director
dǒng
Top: plant 艹, below: double, heavy 重 (vehicle 車/车 with double wheels 二)
(Breeding success is labor-intensive:) To make plants heavy, they must be supervised.  
JLPT HSK 6
carriage, sedan chair, public/world

Outside: mortar 臼 (= two hands E,ヨ pressing from the sides), inside: vehicle 车/車, below: two hands 廾 (= twice this hand 屮 with the fingers 山 towards the top; simplified & combined)
The vehicle that requires four hands is the sedan chair.  
JLPT HSK 6
linchpin of a wheel, to govern, control, administrative
xiá
Left: vehicle 车/車 (= (cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: damaged 害 (Under the roof 宀 is a growing plant 丰 in a pot 口, which damaged it.)
If the vehicle is damaged, you see: The linchpin governs and administers.  
JLPT HSK 6
spoke of a wheel

Left: vehicle 车 (車= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: barrel of rice wine 畐 (here: spoke 一, wheel without spokes 口, wheel with spokes 田)
At a vehicle take a spoke add it to the rim to get the finished wheel with spokes.  
JLPT HSK 6
to chop, cut, sever, behead
zhǎn
Left: vehicle 车 (車= top view with two wheels 二, axle | and loading surface 田), right: ax 斤
The beautiful vehicle 車 was simplified to 车, namely they took an axe, to chop it.  
JLPT HSK 6
track, rut, to remove
zhé
From left: vehicle 车/車, to give birth, educate 育 (The new born baby [=child 子 upside down, as head first at birth] has a body 月, that is born and raised), strike 攵
The vehicle creates (= gives birth) with every strike (=pothole) a track/rut.  
JLPT HSK 6
shafts of cart, yamen
yuán
Left: vehicle 车/車 (top view with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: long robe (old) 袁 (Down to the ground 土 reaches the sleeve 口 of this clothes 衣: the long robe.)
At a vehicle is between earth and the clothes (of the passengers) an opening 口 for the cart's shaft.  
JLPT no HSK
lotus
lián
Top: growing plant 艹, below: link, combine 连 (Vehicles 车/車 and 'movement' 辶 are linked.)
The plant (which floats on the water), but is connected (to the ground) is the: lotus.  
JLPT no HSK
pavilion with a view, high, tall, curtained carriage (old)
xuān
Left: vehicle 车 (車= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: dry 干 (laundry rack)
The vehicle in which you stay dry is the high carriage.  
JLPT no HSK
axis, axle, pivot, rotational bearing
zhóu, zhòu
Left: vehicle 车 (車= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: reason 由 (The sprout/seedling 丨 in the field 田 has its reason.), Here: axis 丨 in a bearing 臼
A vehicle with axis and pivot.  
轿
JLPT no HSK
a sedan chair, a palanquin
jiào
Left: vehicle 车 (車= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: tall 乔 (top:夭, but here: sky 天: [Sky-天-long legs 丿| make tall])
A vehicle, in which you appear tall, is the: sedan chair.  
JLPT no HSK
crossbar in carriage front
shì
Left: vehicle 车 (=車 = top view with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: type/style 式 (Craftsmen 工 make sabers 弋 in their (preferred) type)
In a vehicle according to the style there is a crossbar.  
JLPT no HSK
to crush (by weight), to roll (steel)
yà, zhá
Left: vehicle 车 (=車 = top view with axle | load-area 日 wheels 二), right: a hook 乚 like at: 'to bundle 扎'
The vehicle's (weight) presses/crushes when a hook is produced by: rolling it.  
JLPT no HSK
roll over on side (in bed), roller
zhǎn
Left: vehicle 车/車, right: exhibition, to spread out 展 (For the buttocks 尸 they used grass 艹 to make clothes 衣, and this should be in an exhibition)
With a vehicle the buttocks becomes (flat) like clothes, if you: roll over.  
JLPT no HSK
always, then, at once
zhé
Left: vehicle 车 (車= (top view with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: 耴 (ear 耳, here: axle or axe nail 乚)
At a vehicle you hear 耳 sth. at the axle 乚: always.  
JLPT no HSK
to follow, to arrive, heel
zhǒng
Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: double, heavy 重 (vehicle 車/车 with extra wheels 二 for heavy loads)
When you are on foot and that vehicle is heavy, it's easy: to follow.  
JLPT no HSK
to expel, to oust
niǎn
Left: hand 扌, right: 辇 (2x husband 夫 and vehicle 车/車
A hand (pushes) the gay couple (=2 husbands) on a vehicle, because they are expelled.  
JLPT no HSK
vessel used to hold grain offerings
liǎn
Left: king, jade 王, right: link, combine 连 (Vehicles 车/車 and 'movement' 辶 are linked.)
To the king we are linked through vessels of offerings.  
JLPT no HSK
pulley, capstan, windlass

鹿
Left: vehicle 车/車, right: deer 鹿 (orig. image of a deer)
A vehicle with the pronunciation 'lù' as used at 'deer' stands for a pulley.  
JLPT no HSK
given name of Mencius/Mengzi (follower of Confucius)

Left: vehicle 车/車 (top view with load-area 日, axle丨 & wheels 二), right: can, possibility 可 (The nail 丁 into the opening 口 should be possible.)
Like a vehicle with possibilities is: philosopher Mengzi  
JLPT no HSK
ripple, tearful, flowing water, weeping
lián
Left: water 氵, right: to link, combine 连 (Vehicles 车/車 and 'movement' 辶 are linked.)
Water can combine to rippling waves or weeping.  
JLPT no HSK
slush, mud
nào
Left: water 氵, right: excellent 卓 ([Before the day happens:] Fortune telling 卜 early at the morning 早 is excellent.) Here: see 卓 as a variation of the traditional character for vehicle 車, which comprised an axle 丨, a loading area 日 and two wheels 二 (seen from above)
Due to the water, half of a wheel of the vehicle 車 and the middle of the axle are already immersed: into the slush.  

Radicals are shown here that are similar either in appearance or meaning.


List of the characters | List of the radicals
Get the app of the Hanzi-Trainer!

The app has many other functions, such as character selection according to difficulty, practice programs, handwriting recognition and success statistics!

To the Trainer