辆
usually seen in: motor vehicle (机动车辆); armored vehicles (装甲车辆); vehicle (车辆)
Closest English meanings
vehicle measure word
The Calligrapher — Xī Yīn 郗愔
Jin official famed for his mastery of clerical-cursive script.
Jin calligrapher (), master of clerical cursive — known for 郗鉴之子. Jin dynasty
Cultural Story
Count the carts and you need the character 辆, the measure word for any vehicle: 一辆 bike, a yard full of 车辆. It was built by setting the cart radical beside 两, 'two,' perhaps for the two wheels that define a cart. Unlike most counters it names no shape but the machine itself, the unit a road or a ledger keeps careful count of through the day.
Common words & phrases
- 车辆 vehicles
- 一辆 one vehicle
Read the story behind the character
A traffic camera tallies 车辆 crossing the bridge each minute, and a buyer asks for 一辆 in a particular color at the lot. The word appears on every parking sign and shipping form, the quiet counter behind a city's movement. No one pictures the two wheels of the old character anymore; 辆 simply means 'one machine on wheels,' the arithmetic of transport reduced to a single easy stroke of the tongue.
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