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The character for "vehicle" originates from a pictographic representation of a chariot, which in its traditional form "車" depicted a horizontal view with a central box for the carriage and two lines representing wheels or an axle on either side. Over time, this pictograph was progressively abstracted and simplified, leading to a more stylized form that retained the basic idea of an axle and two wheels but lost much of its illustrative detail. The modern form "车" is a further cursive-derived simplification of this, focusing primarily on a single axle and wheel. While its core meaning has consistently related to wheeled conveyances, it has broadened semantically from specifically denoting horse-drawn chariots to encompass all manner of carts, cars, and machines with wheels, and by extension is used metaphorically in terms for mechanical devices like the waterwheel or spinning wheel in a loom.
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我有一辆红色的车。
他每天开车去上班。
这辆车跑得很快。
公共汽车很拥挤。
我喜欢骑自行车上学。
火车站旁边有停车场。
如果你买车，要考虑油耗。
随着科技发展，电动汽车越来越普及。