Chinese symbol for “car”
车
chē
Traditional: 車
car; vehicle; 辆 (liàng); machine
The closest CC-CEDICT match for car is 车 (chē), defined as: car; vehicle; 辆 (liàng); machine; to shape with a lathe; Kangxi radical 159.
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 “car”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 车.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 汽车 (汽車) | qì chē | car; automobile |
| 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 |
| 列车 (列車) | liè chē | (railway) train |
| 车站 (車站) | chē zhàn | rail station; bus stop |
See also: Japanese symbol for “car”.
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.