Chinese symbol for “bicycle”
自行车
zì xíng chē
Traditional: 自行車
bicycle; bike; 辆 (liàng)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bicycle is 自行车 (zì xíng chē), defined as: bicycle; bike; 辆 (liàng).
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
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “bicycle”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 单车 (單車) | dān chē | (coll.) bicycle; bike (esp. in Hong Kong, Taiwan and southern China and, more generally, used across China to refer to a bike-share bicycle) |
| 脚踏车 (腳踏車) | jiǎo tà chē | (Tw) bicycle; bike; 辆 (liàng) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 自行车.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 自己 | zì jǐ | oneself; (attributive) one's own |
| 自由 | zì yóu | freedom; liberty; free; unrestricted |
| 来自 (來自) | lái zì | to come from (a place); From: (in email header) |
| 自然 | zì rán | nature; natural |
| 自动 (自動) | zì dòng | automatic; voluntarily |
| 自身 | zì shēn | itself; oneself |
| 进行 (進行) | jìn xíng | (of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway; (of people) to carry out; to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc) |
| 举行 (舉行) | jǔ xíng | to hold (a meeting, ceremony etc) |
| 汽车 (汽車) | qì chē | car; automobile |
See also: Japanese symbol for “bicycle”.
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.
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