zhé, chè
wagon ruts
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 轍
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to repeat a disastrous policy | ||
at one's wit's end | ||
rut | ||
to be precisely the same | ||
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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