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

Panhandlers debated the message to come with pedestrians; jinrikisha men argued it with their passengers; miners discussed it deep beneath the surface; pilots argued with their co-pilots thousands of feet above.

From Off Course by Freas, Kelly

One, Yasaku, the kurumaya, a very Hercules, who could keep close to a pair of coach horses through miles of city streets, and who never suffered mortal jinrikisha man to pass him.

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

In the narrow streets of the native quarter, which seldom exceed ten feet in width and which have no sidewalks, the jinrikisha is the only carriage.

From The Critic in the Orient by Fitch, George Hamlin