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轧

gá

Character Traditional 軋

What 轧 means

1. to crush together (in a crowd)
2. to make friends
3. to check (accounts)

Other readings

轧 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• yàto crush; to knock sb down with a vehicle
• zháto roll (steel)
• Yàsurname Ya

Example sentences

• 有个学生在贝辛路被车轧了。
  A student was run over by a car on Basin Street.
• 今天是 2013 年 9 月 4 日。有人说世界语就像西班牙语或义大利语。其实，这些语言就像杏仁牛轧糖或巧克力蛋糕一样甜美。世界语的味道更微妙，就像豆腐、萝卜或蚝油蒸蔬菜的味道。世界语比国际语、西班牙语、义大利语、法语或葡萄牙语更适合中部地区的思维。它确实更适合东方人的思维。
  It is the 4th of September of 2013. Some say that Esperanto is like Spanish or Italian. Actually, these latter languages are sweet like almond nougat or chocolate cake. Esperanto has a more subtle taste like tofu, radish, or steamed vegetables with oyster sauce. Esperanto suits the Centralian mind better than does Interlingua, Spanish, Italian, French, or Portuguese. It really is more suitable for an Eastern mind.

Words starting with 轧

• 轧场yà chángto roll with a stone roller; to thresh grain by rolling
• 轧染yà rǎnpad dyeing
• 轧棉yà miánto gin cotton (separate seeds from fiber)
• 轧机zhá jīsteel rolling mill
• 轧空gá kōng(finance) to squeeze short sellers
• 轧制zhá zhìrolling steel
• 轧轧yà yà(onomatopoeia) sound of machinery, e.g. squeaking
• 轧辊zhá gǔn(steelmaking) roll; roller
• 轧钢zhá gāngto roll steel (into sheets or bars)
• 轧染机yà rǎn jīpressure roller used in dyeing trough
• 轧花机yà huā jīcotton gin
• 轧道机yà dào jīroad roller
• 轧道车yà dào chētrolley for inspecting rail track
• 轧钢厂zhá gāng chǎnga steel rolling mill
• 轧钢条zhá gāng tiáosteel rails
• 轧钢机zhá gāng jīa steel rolling mill
• 轧马路yà mǎ lùto stroll around the streets (esp. of a young couple)

Words containing 轧

• 倾轧qīng yàconflict; internal strife; dissension
• 冷轧lěng zhá(metallurgy) cold-rolled; cold-rolling
• 挤轧jǐ yàto bump and shove
• 热轧rè zhá(metallurgy) hot-rolled; hot-rolling
• 牛轧糖niú gá táng(loanword) nougat
• 凹凸轧花āo tū yà huāembossing
• 碾轧niǎn yàsee 碾压
• 辗轧niǎn yàvariant of 碾轧

Characters that look like 轧

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 犯fànto violate; to offend; to assault
• 礼lǐgift; rite; ceremony
• 扎zhāto prick; to run or stick (a needle etc) into; mug or jug used for serving beer…
• 孔kǒnghole; classifier for cave dwellings
• 札zháthin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China)…
• 钇yǐyttrium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read gá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 噶phonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds)…
• 嘎cackling sound
• 钆gadolinium (chemistry)
• 尜toy formed of a spindle with two sharp ends