车子

chēzi

Traditional: 車子

#1961 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

car, vehicle

Word origin

A compound of 车 (chē, a wheeled vehicle, originally a pictograph of a cart seen from above) and the noun suffix 子 (zi), giving the everyday colloquial word for a car.

Origin
compound
Root
车 (chē, vehicle) + 子 (zi, noun suffix)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 车

Stroke order for 子

Examples

liàng

He bought a new car.

kǒu

The car is parked at the door.

liàng

This car is very comfortable to drive.

My car has broken down.

At the weekend we drove the car to the seaside.

车子 (chē zi) is the colloquial word for a car or vehicle. It adds the familiar noun suffix 子 to 车 (vehicle), much as English softens "automobile" to "car".

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This word is part of lesson 40.