Chinese symbol for “automobile”
汽车
qì chē
Traditional: 汽車
car; automobile; bus; 辆 (liàng)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for automobile is 汽车 (qì chē), defined as: car; automobile; bus; 辆 (liàng).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “automobile”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 汽车.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 汽油 | qì yóu | gasoline |
| 蒸汽 | zhēng qì | steam |
| 汽水 | qì shuǐ | soda pop; carbonated soft drink |
| 公共汽车 (公共汽車) | gōng gòng qì chē | bus; 辆 (liàng),班 (bān) |
| 汽车站 (汽車站) | qì chē zhàn | bus stop; bus station |
| 车辆 (車輛) | chē liàng | vehicle |
| 火车 (火車) | huǒ chē | train; measure word: 列 (liè), 节 (jié), 班 (bān), 趟 (tàng) |
| 开车 (開車) | kāi chē | to drive a car (or train etc); (slang) to post sexual content online; to make a sexual joke |
See also: Japanese symbol for “automobile”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.