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车 |
car, vehicle, carriage
Simplified from 車, which showed a hand-cart from top with an axle 丨, loading area 日 and two wheels 二 |
轻 |
easy, light, gentle
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. |
辆 |
classifier for vehicles
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. |
较 |
to compare, comparatively, to contrast, rather
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! |
裤 |
pants, trousers, drawers
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. |
输 |
to transport, to donate, to lose, to enter (a password)
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. |
转 |
to turn, revolve, convey, transfer
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 squat position with poles 二 in the hands is focussed.) In a vehicle you need to be focussed if you turn. |
连 |
to link, join, connect, continuously, including
Left: movement 辶, right: vehicle 车 (=車 cart with axle丨 load-area 日 and two wheels 二) Vehicles and 'movement' are linked. |
辑 |
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. |
辈 |
contemporaries, generation, lifetime
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. |
载 |
to convey, to load, written record, year
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. |
阵 |
disposition of troops, front, classifier for short durations
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. |
软 |
flexible (not hard), soft, weak
Left: vehicle 车 (車= carriage mit 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. |
辅 |
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. |
链 |
chain
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. |
军 |
army, military, arms
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. |
轮 |
to rotate, wheel, disk, ring, steamship
Left: vehicle 车 (車= carriage mit 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. |
库 |
warehouse, storehouse, reservoir, arsenal
Outside: building 广, inside: vehicle 车 (車= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二) The building for vehicles is the warehouse. |
轰 |
clash, bang, rumble, to shoo away, to expel, explosion
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. |
轨 |
rail, track, course, path
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. |
辉 |
glorious, splendid, to shine upon
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. |
舆 |
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. |
辖 |
linchpin of a wheel, to govern, control, administrative
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. |
辐 |
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. |
斩 |
to chop, cut, sever, behead
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. |
辙 |
track, rut, track, to remove
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. |
辕 |
shafts of cart, yamen
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 clothing 衣: the long robe.) At a vehicle is between earth and the clothing (of the passengers) an opening 口 for the cart's shaft. |
莲 |
lotus
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. |
轩 |
pavilion with a view, high, tall, curtained carriage (old)
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. |
轴 |
axis, axle, pivot, rotational bearing
Left: vehicle 车 (車= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: reason 由 (seedling 丨 on a field 田), Here: axis 丨 in a bearing 臼 A vehicle with axis and pivot. |
轿 |
a sedan chair, a palanquin
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. |
轼 |
crossbar in carriage front
Left: vehicle 车 (=車 = top view with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: type/style 式 (Craftsmen 工 make sabres 弋 in their (preferred) type) In a vehicle according to the style there is a crossbar. |
轧 |
to crush (by weight), to roll (steel)
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. |
辗 |
roll over on side (in bed), roller
Left: vehicle 车/車, right: exhibition, to spread out 展 (For the buttocks 尸 they used grass 艹 to make clothings 衣, and this should be in an exhibition) With a vehicle the buttocks becomes (flat) like clothings, if you: roll over. |
辄 |
always, then, at once
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. |
撵 |
to expel, to oust
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. |
琏 |
vessel used to hold grain offerings
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. |
辘 |
pulley, capstan, windlass
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. |
轲 |
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 |
涟 |
ripple, tearful, flowing water, weeping
Left: water 氵, right: link, combine 连 (Vehicles 车/車 and 'movement' 辶 are linked.) Water can combine to rippling waves or weeping. |
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