Chinese symbol for “winch”
绞车
jiǎo chē
Traditional: 絞車
winch; windlass
The closest CC-CEDICT match for winch is 绞车 (jiǎo chē), defined as: winch; windlass.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 绞车.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 绞刑 (絞刑) | jiǎo xíng | to execute by hanging |
| 绞死 (絞死) | jiǎo sǐ | to hang (i.e. execute by hanging); to strangle |
| 绞尽脑汁 (絞盡腦汁) | jiǎo jìn nǎo zhī | to rack one's brains |
| 绞杀 (絞殺) | jiǎo shā | to kill by strangling, hanging or garrotting; (fig.) to snuff out |
| 心绞痛 (心絞痛) | xīn jiǎo tòng | angina |
| 绞盘 (絞盤) | jiǎo pán | capstan |
| 汽车 (汽車) | qì chē | car; automobile |
| 车辆 (車輛) | chē liàng | vehicle |
See also: Japanese symbol for “winch”.
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.