Example sentences

zuòchūchēma

Shall we take a taxi?

chūchēláile

The taxi is here.

The story behind the character

The earliest 车 is a war chariot: two wheels, a body in the middle, a shaft out front. The traditional 車 still shows the outline; the simplified 车 lost the wheels. Xu Shen called it "the general name for cart and wheel."

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