(chē zi) - car, vehicle in Mandarin
chēziTraditional: 車子
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
车
子
Examples
辆。
He bought a new car.
口。
The car is parked at the door.
辆。
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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