zhá

crush by weight

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
车 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

乚 sound component

  Sound component

yǐn

  

turning stroke

Evolution

轧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
轧 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
轧 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
轧 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

crush by weight; grind; to crush; to knock sb down with a vehicle

() 

surname Ya

() 

to crush together (in a crowd); to make friends; to check (accounts)

() 

zhá

to roll (steel)

Most common words with 轧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to crush

冷轧

cold-rolling

轧钢

to roll steel (into sheets or bars)

轧机

steel rolling mill

轧制

rolling steel

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3269th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Traditional

Unicode

U+8F67


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