zhóu, zhòu
axle
Phonosemantic compound. 车 represents the meaning and 由 represents the sound. Simplified form of 軸.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 轴
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
axis | ||
(mechanical) bearing | ||
scroll (book or painting) | ||
central axis (line) | ||
axle |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.6681% of movies
2625th most common character in movies
2438th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8F74 |
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