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Che (pinyin: chē, jū) is a first-class Chinese character (commonly used word). This word first appeared in Shang Dynasty Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Shang Dynasty inscriptions, and its ancient glyph is like an ancient car. Most of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jin Wen had wagons, axles and wheels. The original meaning of "car" is vehicle; The ancient car was not only a means of transportation, but also used to lead troops to fight.
Later, "car" generally refers to vehicles with wheels on land, and extends to all tools that rotate with wheels. "Turning" is also used as a verb, which means cutting with a lathe. "Car" is used in dialect, which also means turning the body. The word "car" in chess is pronounced jū.
"Che" is one of the radicals of Chinese characters, with serial number 68. Words with the symbol "car" are mostly related to cars, which can be roughly divided into four categories: first, the types of cars, such as chariots and chariots; Second, automobile parts, such as wheels, axles and axles; Third, the purpose of the car, such as transshipment, loading and transportation; Fourth, other things related to cars, such as tracks, tracks and reeds.
The word "car" is the result of further simplification of the word "car", with only four strokes in total. Compared with the original complicated two-wheeled "car", the difficulty is quite different. This "car" comes from cursive script. Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, many calligraphers, such as Wang Xianzhi, Huai Su, Yan Zhenqing, Yu Shinan, Su Shi, Xian Yushu, Zhu Zhishan and others, have written the word "che" as a unique cursive script or as a radical word.
The original meaning of "car" is car, which is a wheeled vehicle on land. With the development of the times, great changes have taken place in the appearance of cars. In a specific context, it can refer to a two-wheeled bicycle, a four-wheeled car or a multi-wheeled container transport vehicle.
In addition to transportation and travel, ancient cars were also used in war. Therefore, the term "automobile" sometimes refers to personnel carriers. "Zuo Zhuan Yin Gongyuan" contains: Knowing the day when his brother attacked Zheng, he was ordered to "take a handsome car to attack Beijing".
In addition to the original meaning, the word "car" is also widely used in literature, and there are some metonymies and derivatives.
Wheels are rotating, so "car" can also be extended to machinery that rotates with axles or runs with wheels. Cutting parts with a lathe is called car parts, and sewing clothes with a sewing machine is called car clothes. As for the word "car" in the words "test run" and "workshop", it can be understood as referring to machines in general.
"Car" also refers to the gingival bone, which may be transferred from the special metaphor of the original meaning of the word "car". According to the Five Years of Zuo Zhuan Gong, in 655 BC, Jin wanted to cross Yuzhou to destroy the ancient country, so he sent messengers to borrow soldiers from Yuzhou. Yu's doctor Gong believes that Guo and Yu are interdependent neighbors. If Guo perishes, so will Guo.
Gong Qizhi quoted a popular saying at that time: "Auxiliary cars depend on each other, and their lips are dead and their teeth are cold." According to ancient notes, "auxiliary" is cheek and "vehicle" is gum, which are interdependent. In fact, "auxiliary" may have referred to the caravan, and "car" refers to the car body; "Auxiliary cars live together" means that no one can live without the car body. Because lips and teeth are interdependent, later generations also compared "auxiliary" and "car" to the human body.