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辄

zhé

Character Traditional 輒

What 辄 means

1. then
2. at once
3. always
4. archaicluggage rack on a chariot

Other readings

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

• zhévariant of {辄|zhé}

Example sentences

• 他动辄就发脾气，所以我不怎么喜欢他。
  Tā dòngzhé jiù fāpíqì, suǒyǐ wǒ bù zěnme xǐhuan tā.
  I don't like him because he loses his temper easily.

Words containing 辄

• 动辄dòng zhéeasily; readily; frequently
• 动辄得咎dòng zhé dé jiùfaulted at every turn (idiom); can't get anything right
• 浅尝辄止qiǎn cháng zhé zhǐ(lit.) to stop after taking just a sip (idiom); (fig.) to gain only a superficial…

Characters that look like 辄

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

• 梳shūto comb; (bound form) a comb
• 辊gǔnroller
• 眺tiàoto gaze into the distance
• 铢zhūtwenty-fourth part of a tael (2 or 3 grams)
• 舐shìto lick; to lap (up)
• 蛭zhìfluke; leech; hirudinea

Sounds the same

Read zhé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 哲wise; a sage
• 折to break; to fracture; to snap
• 辙rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. chè); (colloquial) the direction of traffic…
• 乙turning stroke (in Chinese characters), aka 折
• 蛰to hibernate
• 摺document folded in accordion form; to fold
• 谪to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region…
• 蜇jellyfish
• 磔old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters…
• 晢bright
• 悊to revere; to respect; variant of 哲
• 乇"blade of grass" component in Chinese characters