yà, gá, zhá
crush by weight
Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 乚 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 軋
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to crush | ||
cold-rolling | ||
to roll steel (into sheets or bars) | ||
steel rolling mill | ||
rolling steel |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qˤrət | 'eat | yà | crush |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3269th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8ECB |
Shuowen | “軋,也。从車,乙聲。” |
Sources
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