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Chinese symbol for “tricycle”

三轮车
sān lún chē
Traditional: 三輪車
pedicab; tricycle

The closest CC-CEDICT match for tricycle is 三轮车 (sān lún chē), defined as: pedicab; tricycle.

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Characters and stroke order

三 sān
three
radical 1 ⼀ · 3 strokes
轮 lún
wheel; to turn, to revolve; to recur
radical 159 ⾞ · 8 strokes
车 chē
cart, vehicle; to move in a cart
radical 159 ⾞ · 4 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 三轮车.

WordPinyinMeaning
三星sān xīngthree major stars of the Three Stars 参宿 (Shēn xiù) Chinese constellation; the belt of Orion
三次sān cìthird; three times
三级 (三級)sān jígrade 3; third class
十三shí sānthirteen; 13
三分sān fēnsomewhat; to some degree
第三方dì sān fāngthird party
轮胎 (輪胎)lún tāitire; pneumatic tire
一轮 (一輪)yī lúnfirst round or stage (of a match, election, talks, planned policy etc)
汽车 (汽車)qì chēcar; automobile

See also: Japanese symbol for “tricycle”.

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.