xiá
linchpin of wheel
Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 害 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 轄
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
administrative region | ||
to administer | ||
to govern | ||
province level city | ||
to govern directly |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤrat | haet | xiá | wheel-axle cap with linch-pin |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.0594% of movies
2669th most common character in movies
1643rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8F44 |
Shuowen | “轄，車聲也。从車，害聲。一曰轄，鍵也。” |
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