HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Places

车 chē “car” in Chinese

Traditional 車

What 车 means

  1. car
  2. vehicle
  3. machine
  4. to shape with a lathe
  5. Kangxi radical 159

Measure word 辆 liàng · 一辆车 yí liàng chē

How to say 车

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale车chē1st tone, high and level

车 in a sentence

  1. 你有车吗？

    Nǐ yǒu chē ma?

    Do you have a car?

    Sentence #472404 from Tatoeba

  2. 这是你朋友的车吗？

    Zhè shì nǐ péngyou de chē ma?

    Is this your friend’s car?

    Sentence #10733391 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你的车什么颜色？

    Nǐ de chē shénme yánsè?

    What colour is your car?

    Sentence #9961391 from Tatoeba

How 车 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 车 (chē) with each of its parts in a different colour
车chēcar
  • 七seven · qī
  • 十ten · shí

Memory aidSimplified from 車: a cart seen from above, with its axle and two wheels.

How to write 车

车 4 strokes

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车 (chē) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 车 (chē). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 车

Words with 车

火车huǒchē · train开车kāichē · to drive a car出租车chūzūchē · taxi车站chēzhàn · rail station打车dǎchē · to take a taxi (in town)火车站huǒchēzhàn · train station公交车gōngjiāochē · public transport vehicle公共汽车gōnggòng qìchē · bus汽车qìchē · car自行车zìxíngchē · bike

More words: Places & Getting Around

边biān · side电影院diànyǐngyuàn · cinema店diàn · shop国guó · country火车huǒchē · train区qū · district城chéng · city步bù · step

FAQs

车 (chē) means “car” or “vehicle”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it chē: chē with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 车 is written 車. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 辆 (liàng). For example, one car is 一辆车 (yí liàng chē).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type che with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 车 from the suggestions. Typing che into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
车 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.