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修车 (xiū chē) — to repair a vehicle (car, bike, etc.)

Definition

A verb-object phrase meaning 'to repair a vehicle' — the object 车 specifies what is being fixed, not a person. Unlike single-verb 修, it focuses on cars/bikes rather than general objects.

verb
to repair a vehicle (car, bike, etc.)

Examples

  • ，修车。
    Wǒ de zì xíng chē huài le, xū yào xiū chē.
    My bike is broken and needs repairing.
  • 修车，。
    Tā yǐ qián xué guò xiū chē, shǒu yì hěn hǎo.
    He studied car repair before and is very skilled.
  • ，。
    Zhè liàng chē wǒ xiū le sān cì, hái shì yǒu wèn tí.
    I repaired this car three times, but it still has problems.

Origin

Characters in this word

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

Meaning part形符xíngfú
彡彡shān
Sound part声符shēngfú
攸
攸yōu修xiū
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

修 is built from 攸, which gives the sound, and 彡, a set of three strokes that shows the meaning.

Open 修 →

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 →
Appears in
Vehicles

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