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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.

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

发 fā
to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
radical 29 ⼜ · 5 strokes
车 chē
cart, vehicle; to move in a cart
radical 159 ⾞ · 4 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “departure”

WordPinyinMeaning
出港chū gǎngto leave harbor; departure (at airport)
开拔 (開拔)kāi báto set out (of troops); departure
离港 (離港)lí gǎngto leave harbor; departure (at airport)

Related words

Other words that share a character with 发车.

WordPinyinMeaning
发展 (發展)fā zhǎndevelopment; growth
发生 (發生)fā shēngto 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 xiànto notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect
开发 (開發)kāi fāto exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop
发布 (發佈)fā bùvariant of 发布 (fā bù)
汽车 (汽車)qì chēcar; automobile
车辆 (車輛)chē liàngvehicle
火车 (火車)huǒ chētrain; 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.

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