Chinese symbol for “wheelbarrow”
独轮车
dú lún chē
Traditional: 獨輪車
wheelbarrow; unicycle
The closest CC-CEDICT match for wheelbarrow is 独轮车 (dú lún chē), defined as: wheelbarrow; unicycle.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “wheelbarrow”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小车 (小車) | xiǎo chē | small model car; mini-car |
| 手推车 (手推車) | shǒu tuī chē | trolley; cart |
| 车斗 (車斗) | chē dǒu | open-topped container (mounted on a truck or cart) for carrying loads; dump box (of a dump truck) |
| 斗车 (斗車) | dǒu chē | hopper car; wheelbarrow |
| 軖 | kuáng | spinning wheel; wheelbarrow |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 独轮车.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 独立 (獨立) | dú lì | independent; independence |
| 独特 (獨特) | dú tè | unique; distinctive |
| 单独 (單獨) | dān dú | alone; by oneself |
| 独自 (獨自) | dú zì | alone |
| 孤独 (孤獨) | gū dú | lonely; solitary |
| 独裁 (獨裁) | dú cái | dictatorship |
| 轮胎 (輪胎) | lún tāi | tire; pneumatic tire |
| 一轮 (一輪) | yī lún | first round or stage (of a match, election, talks, planned policy etc) |
| 汽车 (汽車) | qì chē | car; automobile |
See also: Japanese symbol for “wheelbarrow”.
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.