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Pulled rickshaw

Japanese rickshaws c. 1897
Pulled rickshaw
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese人力車
Simplified Chinese人力车
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinrénlìchē
Wade–Gilesjên2-li4-chʻê1
Japanese name
Kanji力車
Hiraganaりきしゃ
Transcriptions
Romanizationrikisha
Tourists dressed as maiko on a rickshaw in Kyoto, Japan

A pulled rickshaw (from Japanese jinrikisha (人力車) 'person/human-powered vehicle') is a mode of human-powered transport by which a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two people.

In recent times the use of human-powered rickshaws has been discouraged or outlawed in many countries due to concern for the welfare of rickshaw workers.[1] Pulled rickshaws have been replaced mainly by cycle rickshaws and auto rickshaws.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Trillin104 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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جنركشة Arabic Rickshaw con tracción humana Spanish Pousse-pousse (transport de personnes) French Pousse-pousse Italian 인력거 Korean

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