zhé
sides of chariot where weapons
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 輒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
then | ||
easily | ||
to attempt half-heartedly | ||
faulted at every turn (idiom); can't get anything right |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*t-nˤep | tep | zhé | paralysed, unable to move |
*[t]rep | trjep | zhé | sides of a carriage box |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3557th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8F12 |
Shuowen | “輒,車兩輢也。从車,耴聲。” |
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