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轄

xiá

linchpin of wheel

Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 害 represents the sound.

Components
車 meaning component

車  Meaning component

chē, jū

  

vehicle

害 sound component

害  Sound component

hài

  

injure

Evolution

轄 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
轄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
轄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

辖 (轄) 

xiá

linchpin of wheel; control; to govern; to control; having jurisdiction over; linchpin of a wheel (archaic); noise of a barrow

Most common words with 轄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

辖区

administrative region

管辖

to administer

辖

to govern

直辖市

province level city

直辖

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

辖

Unicode

U+8F44

Shuowen

“轄，車聲也。从車，害聲。一曰轄，鍵也。”


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