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What does the term rickshaw mean?

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

The word rickshaw originates from the Japanese word jinrikisha (人力車, 人 jin = human, 力 riki = power or force, 車 sha = vehicle), which literally means "human-powered vehicle". Contrary to what you would expect it may not have been a Chinese or Japanese invention but the invention of an American missionary who used it to take his invalid wife through Yokohama where he lived. Others claim that it was invented by a Japanese entrepreneur called Izumi Yosuke.

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