zhéchè

wagon ruts

Components
車 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

cart

育 unknown component

  Unknown component

  

to have children

攵 unknown component

  Unknown component

  

tap

Evolution

轍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
轍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

zhé

wagon ruts, wheel tracks; rut; track; rhyme; (dialect) way; method

() 

chè

to remove; to withdraw

Most common words with 轍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

重蹈覆辙

to repeat a disastrous policy

没辙

at one's wit's end

rut

如出一辙

to be precisely the same

覆辙

disastrous policy

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ret

drjet

zhé

wheel-track


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.2356% of movies

2809th most common character in movies

3208th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+8F4D

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“轍,車迹也。从車,徹省聲。本通用徹,後人所加。”


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