counter for vehicles; counter for train cars
Rare, traditional counter for vehicles, especially railway carriages. In modern Japanese, 両 is the standard counter for the same purpose. This form may appear in older texts or formal contexts.
See also: 両 (りょう)
This train is made up of ten cars.
In old documents, there are examples of counting carts as 三輛.
The standard modern counter for vehicles and train cars. 輛 is an older, rarer variant with the same meaning and reading.
Traditional kanji form for counting vehicles; now largely replaced by 両 in modern usage.
Variant kanji form; even less common than 輛.
The kanji 輛 is a traditional form used as a counter for vehicles, derived from the character for 'carriage'. Its use has largely been supplanted by the simplified form 両 in modern Japanese.