车速

chē sù · HSK 7

vehicle speed

🚗💨 车 car + 速 speed — a car so fast it gets sued (sù)

Chē means car or vehicle. Sù means speed. Together chē sù is vehicle speed, like what a radar gun measures.

车 — pictograph of a chariot/cart
车 is a pictograph originally drawn as a top-down view of a chariot, showing the axle, wheels, and carriage box. The ancient form 車 clearly depicted two wheels connected by an axle. It still means vehicle, cart, or car today.

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