Vehicle Radical (车) — Characters, Meaning and Practice Worksheet
车 is the vehicle radical. It appears in 18 of the most common Chinese characters — these 12 are the ones worth learning first, and the worksheet below gives every one of them a pinyin header, a stroke-by-stroke model and blank Tianzige grids to copy into.
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What does 车 mean?
Vehicle radical · 车 chē · 4 strokes · cart, vehicle
It usually appears on the left, or at the bottom. The Origin column below shows what each character's parts do — many take their meaning from the radical, some take their sound from the other half.
车 itself: Simplified form of 車, a cart with two wheels, seen from above
12 common characters with 车
Ranked by how often they appear in real written Chinese. Every character links to its own page with a stroke-order animation and example words.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 军 | jūn | army | Soldiers 冖 (distorted 力) in a cart 车 |
| 转 | zhuǎn | change, shift; pass on; rotate, resolve; turn | 专 supplies the sound |
| 连 | lián | [as in 连…都(也）…] even | A cart 车 moving 辶 goods between cities |
| 较 | jiào | [preceding an adjective or adverb to form a comparison] relatively | 交 supplies the sound |
| 轻 | qīng | light | 工 supplies the sound |
| 阵 | zhèn | [measure word for a short period of time or action] gust, spell | A formation 阝of soldiers 车 |
| 轮 | lún | round (of competitions and talks, etc.); [measure word for the sun and the full moon] | 仑 supplies the sound |
| 软 | ruǎn | soft | 欠 supplies the sound |
| 输 | shū | lose, be defeated; transport | 俞 supplies the sound |
| 载 | zǎi | record; carry (in a vehicle) | 哉 supplies the sound |
| 辈 | bèi | lifetime; generation; group of people; class; classifier for generatio… | 非 supplies the sound |
| 辆 | liàng | [measure word for vehicles] | Two 两 carts 车; 两 also provides the pronunciation |
Related Radicals
- 贝Shell radical · bèi36 common characters · shell; (ancient) money
- 走Walk radical · zǒu10 common characters · to walk, to run
- 足Foot radical · zú18 common characters · foot
- 辶Go radical · chuò53 common characters · to walk, to go; movement
- 酉Wine radical · yǒu8 common characters · wine; a wine jar
- 钅Metal radical · jīn26 common characters · gold, metal
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