Chinese symbol for “carriage”
车厢
chē xiāng
Traditional: 車廂
carriage; 节 (jié)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for carriage is 车厢 (chē xiāng), defined as: carriage; 节 (jié).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “carriage”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 座车 (座車) | zuò chē | (railway) carriage |
| 体态 (體態) | tǐ tài | figure; physique; bearing; carriage |
| 马车 (馬車) | mǎ chē | cart; chariot |
| 辒辌 (轀輬) | wēn liáng | (sleeping) carriage; hearse |
| 輫 | pái | carriage (archaic) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 车厢.
| 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 |
| 包厢 (包廂) | bāo xiāng | box (in a theater or concert hall); private room (in a restaurant or karaoke) |
| 一厢情愿 (一廂情願) | yī xiāng qíng yuàn | one's own wishful thinking |
See also: Japanese symbol for “carriage”.
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.