车
chē
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 車
A vehicle on wheels; in everyday speech, a car. 开车 is 'to drive', 坐车 'to go by car or bus', 上车 and 下车 'to get in' and 'to get out'. Kinds of vehicle end in it: 汽车 car, 火车 train, 出租车 taxi, 自行车 bicycle. The measure word is 辆: 一辆车.
Xe, phương tiện đi lại có bánh; thường ngày hay chỉ xe hơi. 开车 là lái xe, 坐车 là đi xe, 上车 và 下车 là lên xe, xuống xe. Tên các loại xe đều kết thúc bằng chữ này: 汽车 (ô tô), 火车 (tàu hoả), 出租车 (taxi), 自行车 (xe đạp). Lượng từ là 辆: 一辆车.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “车” mean?
A vehicle on wheels; in everyday speech, a car. 开车 is 'to drive', 坐车 'to go by car or bus', 上车 and 下车 'to get in' and 'to get out'. Kinds of vehicle end in it: 汽车 car, 火车 train, 出租车 taxi, 自行车 bicycle. The measure word is 辆: 一辆车.
Is “车” formal or informal?
车 is generally neutral.