jinrikisha

American  

[jin-rik-shaw, -shah] / dʒɪnˈrɪk ʃɔ, -ʃɑ /

Also jinrickshaw, or jinricksha

noun

1. rickshaw.

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jinrikisha British  

/ dʒɪnˈrɪkʃɔː, -ʃə /

noun

1. other names for rickshaw

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Etymology

Origin of jinrikisha

First recorded in 1870–75; from Japanese, equivalent to jin “man, person” + -riki “power, strength” + -sha “vehicle, carriage” (from Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese rénlì shē )

Example Sentences

Through Hong Kong's twisting, crowded streets drove Gina Lollobrigida, riding alternately in a gold-painted Fiat and a jinrikisha, and extolling at every stop the virtues of Italian products.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vice Consul Kuramoto signalled a jinrikisha, stepped in, and that was the last anyone saw of him for five days.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not a room could be obtained, and we were at last obliged to walk some distance, for we had dismissed our tired jinrikisha men, to a hotel in the village, of which we knew nothing.

From Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Bacon, Alice Mabel

Occasionally the jinrikisha dashes up a little bank and across a bridge that spans a canal and one catches a glimpse of long lines of house boats, with dim lights, nestling under overhanging balconies.

From The Critic in the Orient by Fitch, George Hamlin

One of the remarkable jinrikisha rides in Japan is that from Uyeno to Shimbashi station through the heart of Tokio by night.

From The Critic in the Orient by Fitch, George Hamlin