車 · chē

vehicle; cart

Radical pronunciation

Radical summary

#159

Kangxi

7

Strokes

#41

Frequency

Visual hint

A cart seen from above; the simplified form is 车.

Often relates to vehicles, transport, or mechanical movement.

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Trace the radical, simplified, traditional, and variant forms when available.

車车

3 examples

车

chē

car; vehicle

HSK 1

辆

liàng

measure word for vehicles

HSK 2

轻

qīng

light; gentle

HSK 3

The radical 車 has the simplified form 车, common in vehicle-related characters.

Think of 车 as a simple vehicle frame with a central axle.

東: 车 is vehicle in simplified Chinese; 東/东 means east and has a central axis that may look similar.

What is the radical in the character 辆?