axle

Components
車 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

wheel

可 sound component

  Sound component

  

able to

Evolution

軻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
軻 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
軻 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
軻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

axle; personal name of Mencius

() 

given name of Mencius

() 

see 轗軻|轗轲[kǎn​kě]

Most common words with 軻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

荆轲

Jing Ke (-227 BC), celebrated in verse and fiction as would-be assassin of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇)

given name of Mencius

孟轲

Mencius 孟子 (c. 372-c. 289), Confucian philosopher

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3853rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+8EFB

Shuowen

“軻,接軸車也。从車,可聲。”


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