Zi:車

車(S​车) [chē] car; cart, carriage; chariot; wagon; wheeled vehicle; vehicle; (radical 159, 車​部) [jū] a game piece in Chinese chess (​象​棋); (HDZ:) ​车​子, …

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    HDZ: 車 : chē (​又​读 jū) : ​车​子, ​陆​地​上​有​轮​子​的​交​通​工​具; ​车​士, ​驾​车​的​人; ​车​工; ​乘​车; ​利​用​轮​轴​旋​转​的​工​具; ​用​车​床​切​削​东​西; (​方​言) ​转​动 (​身​体​等); ​用​水​车​戽​水; ​牙​床​骨; (​量​词) ​容​量​单​位; ​捕​鸟​的​网; (​读 jū) (​象​棋) ​棋​子​之​一 (cf. ​俥); (​姓)
(Explanation from the entry for the simple form ​车:) The character ​车/車 chē ‘cart/carriage/chariot/car’ derives from old pictographs depicting a cart/carriage/chariot; the full form 車 is the view from above, of the two wheels (horizontal strokes above and below), with ​田 in the middle sketching the platform/chassis/body sitting atop the axel, and a vertical line representing the axel; in the simple form ​车 the chassis is abbrev., and the axel is shortened (suggesting a spring suspension).
    The Shuōwén Seal form of 車(​􂠴) chē ‘cart’ writes a shape like ​田(​􂛋) in the middle, representing the bed/platform of the cart (body/chassis of the carriage); the horizontal lines above and below abbrev. the two wheels (on either side of the chassis) as seen from above; or as can be seen from old graphs reinterpreted in the Seal, the ​田(​􂛋) shape draws only one of the two wheels; a vertical line represents the transverse cart axel; the old Seal form ​𨏖(​􂠵) reflects stylized features of much older graphs in which the ​戔(​􂍧) shape depicts the ​𠓜 double yoke/harness (attaching oxen/horses to the shafts), and the two 車 shapes correspond to depictions of the two wheels (attached to each axel end with linchpins); the horizontal lines may represent the linchpins, or more likely the cart shafts.
    Older graphs associated with 車(​􂠴) write the two spoked wheels with a shape like ​田(​􂛋), attached to the axel (vertical line), with a horizontal line for the shaft attaching the axel to the yoke; the yoke is drawn like ​戔(​􂍧) in the old Seal form ​𨏖(​􂠵), and there are three shapes like ​田(​􂛋), two of which write the two wheels (above and below), and the third the platform/chassis in the middle; in one old graph the chassis is square (rather than circular), and clearly drawn as if sitting atop the axel.
    Note: As a component in other characters, the meanings of ​车/車 relate to ‘carts/cars and their parts’, and also to cart-related motions/actions (turn, drive, carry/load).
    Compare: ​库/​庫(​􁥌) kù ‘military garage/arsenal’ (SW), in which ​车/車(​􂠴​􂠵) chē/jū (phonosemantic).
    Compare: ​轮/​輪(​􂡙) lún ‘spoked wheel’; ​辐/​輻(​􂡡) fú ‘spokes’; ​軎(​􂡟) wèi ‘ends of a cart/carriage axel’; ​辖/​轄(​􂡸) xiá ‘linchpin’; ​辕/​轅(​􂡤) yuán ‘cart pole/shafts’.
    Compare: ​载/​載(​􂡳​𨌏) zài ‘carry/load’; ​舆/​輿(​􂡃) yú ‘sedan chair’; ​军/​軍(​􂡴​𠣞) jūn ‘army/unit (of 4,000 men)’.
    Compare: ​转/​轉(​􂡹) zhuǎn ‘turn’, zhuàn ‘rotate/spin’; ​辗/​輾 zhǎn ‘roll over’.
    Note: The ​丨 vertical stroke of the independent character is written last; but when ​车 occurs as a component on the left side of a character (as in ​轮 lún ‘wheel’), then the rising stroke ​ is last, and ​丨 is the penultimate (next to last) stroke.
    ​车(車) is the 159th of the 214 radicals.
   
►references: Karlgren:GSR74a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:5.3511.1; Mathews:280; Guǎngyùn:067.07,164.50; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:1239.01; EDOC:1
►components: ​日​​​田​丨​二​十
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