漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
車: car
JLPT N57 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
7 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Shang Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
シャsha · on'yomi · in compounds
- 自転車じてんしゃbicycle
- 電車でんしゃtrain
- 自動車じどうしゃautomobile
- 駐車するちゅうしゃするpark a car
- 停車するていしゃするstop a car or train
くるまkuruma · kun'yomi · on its own
- 車くるまcar
- 車いすくるまいすwheel chair
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
Originally a carriage seen from above. In the oracle bone script, there were large wheels on both sides and a central shaft at the front.
Source: Wiktionary, 車 (rev. 94513764), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Look down on the world's first machines! This character shows the wheels and the frame of an ancient wagon.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 车 · traditional, as in Japanese · chē
Japan keeps the traditional form 車; mainland China simplifies it to 车.
- Simplified
- 车 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 車 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin chē most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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