车箱 (chē xiāng) — carriage, compartment (variant of 车厢)

Definition

车箱 (chēxiāng) is a variant spelling of 车厢, both meaning a railway carriage or compartment. The standard form is 车厢.

noun

carriagecompartment (variant of 车厢)

Measure word · 节

Examples

车箱。
Huǒ chē shàng de chē xiāng hěn gān jìng.
The carriages on the train are very clean.
车箱。
Tā zuò zài chē xiāng de chuāng biān kàn fēng jǐng.
He sat by the window of the compartment looking at the scenery.
车箱。
Zhè jié chē xiāng kě yǐ zuò liù shí gè rén.
This carriage can seat sixty people.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

车chēvehicle

箱xiāngbox

车 (vehicle) and 箱 (box) combine to mean a box-like compartment of a vehicle.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 車; 车 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 車 was drawn as a carriage seen from above, with wheels on both sides and a shaft at the front; the simplified 车 is a later shorthand.

Open 车 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

𥫗相箱

Meaning part形符xíngfú

𥫗Written in full as竹zhúbamboo

Sound part声符shēngfú

相

相xiāng箱xiāng

Same sound today

箱 combines 竹, showing bamboo, with 相 as a sound part, to write a bamboo box or case.

Open 箱 →

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