Chinese symbol for “departure”
发车
fā chē
Traditional: 發車
departure (of a coach or train); to dispatch a vehicle
The closest CC-CEDICT match for departure is 发车 (fā chē), defined as: departure (of a coach or train); to dispatch a vehicle.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “departure”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出港 | chū gǎng | to leave harbor; departure (at airport) |
| 开拔 (開拔) | kāi bá | to set out (of troops); departure |
| 离港 (離港) | lí gǎng | to leave harbor; departure (at airport) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 发车.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 发展 (發展) | fā zhǎn | development; growth |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 发现 (發現) | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect |
| 开发 (開發) | kāi fā | to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop |
| 发布 (發佈) | fā bù | variant of 发布 (fā bù) |
| 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) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “departure”.
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.