車
부수: 車
획수: 7획
車 has the meanings cart, axle, train, vehicle and transportation.
車 = 車
X = semantic
• 車 depicts a war chariot and from this comes the modern meanings of ‘wheeled machine’, ‘carriage’ and ‘vehicle’.
Evolution:
車 = chariot ➔ cart ➔ train
車 = chariot ➔ cart ➔ vehicle ➔ transportation
車 = chariot ➔ cart ➔ axle
Mnemonic
車 clearly depicts a cart with the two horizontal lines at each end depicting the axels 車軸(차축). Imagine the box in the centre as the carriage.
Vocab
| 牛車 | 우차 | an oxcart |
| 人力車 | 인력거 | a rickshaw |
| 乳母車 | 유모차 | a baby carriage |
| 布帳馬車 | 포장마차 | a mobile snack bar |
| 車軸 | 차축 | an axle |
| 風車 | 풍차 | a windmill |
| 列車 | 열차 | a train |
| 汽車 | 기차 | a steam train |
| 貨車 | 화차 | a freight carriage |
| 停車場 | 정거장 | depot; station |
| 機關車 | 기관차 | a locomotive |
| 驛馬車 | 역마차 | a stagecoach |
| 막車 | 막차 | the last train |
| 自動車 | 자동차 | a car |
| 乘用車 | 승용차 | a passenger car |
| 車멀미 | 차멀미 | car sickness |
| 救急車 | 구급차 | an ambulance |
| 自轉車 | 자전거 | a bicycle |
| 駐車場 | 주차장 | a parking lot |
| 停車 | 정차 | vehicle stoppage |
| 洗車 | 세차 | a car wash |
| 戰車 | 전차 | a tank |
| 車線 | 차선 | a traffic lane |
| 車輛 | 차량 | vehiclular traffic |
| 車道 | 차도 | roadway; street |
| 車票 | 차표 | train ticket; bus ticket |
| 車費 | 차비 | transportation fare |
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Bibliography
Affiliate links help support uK.
— Daum 사전, [s.v. 車].
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 394]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 車].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 33]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.