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Chinese symbol for “barrow”

小车
xiǎo chē
Traditional: 小車
small model car; mini-car; small horse-cart; barrow

The closest CC-CEDICT match for barrow is 小车 (xiǎo chē), defined as: small model car; mini-car; small horse-cart; barrow; wheelbarrow; type of folk dance.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

小 xiǎo
small, tiny, insignificant
radical 42 ⼩ · 3 strokes
车 chē
cart, vehicle; to move in a cart
radical 159 ⾞ · 4 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “barrow”

WordPinyinMeaning
手推车 (手推車)shǒu tuī chētrolley; cart
车架 (車架)chē jiàcart; barrow
土丘tǔ qiūmound; hillock

Related words

Other words that share a character with 小车.

WordPinyinMeaning
小时 (小時)xiǎo shíhour
小说 (小說)xiǎo shuōnovel; fiction
小学 (小學)xiǎo xuéelementary school; primary school
小姐xiǎo jieyoung lady; miss
小组 (小組)xiǎo zǔgroup
小孩xiǎo háichild; 个 (gè)
汽车 (汽車)qì chēcar; automobile
车辆 (車輛)chē liàngvehicle

See also: Japanese symbol for “barrow”.

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.