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辙

zhé

HSK 6 Character Traditional 轍

What 辙 means

1. rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. chè)
2. colloquialthe direction of traffic
3. a rhyme (of a song, poem etc)
4. dialect(usu. after {有|yǒu} or {没|méi}) way; idea

Example sentences

• 你要南辕北辙了。
  Nǐ yào nányuánběizhé le.
  You're not going in the right direction.
• 听说汤姆不会重蹈覆辙了。
  Tīngshuō Tāngmǔ bù huì chóngdǎofùzhé le.
  I hear that Tom won't do that again.
• 听说汤姆不会重蹈复辙了。
  I hear Tom won't do that again.
• 你一定要确保汤姆和玛丽不再重蹈覆辙了。
  Nǐ yīdìng yào quèbǎo Tāngmǔ hé Mǎlì bù zài chóngdǎo-fùzhé le.
  You have to make sure that Tom and Mary don't do that again.
• 你一定要确保汤姆和玛丽不再重蹈复辙了。
  You have to make sure that Tom and Mary don't do that again.

Words containing 辙

• 没辙méi zhéat one's wit's end; unable to find a way out
• 如出一辙rú chū yī zhéto be precisely the same; to be no different
• 南辕北辙nán yuán běi zhéto act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom)
• 覆辙fù zhéthe tracks of a cart that overturned; (fig.) a path that led to failure in the past
• 重蹈覆辙chóng dǎo fù zhélit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom)…
• 合辙hé zhéon the same track; in agreement; rhyming
• 找辙zhǎo zhéto look for a pretext
• 故辙gù zhérut (made by vehicles); (fig.) conventional ways
• 苏辙Sū ZhéSu Zhe (1039-1112), Song writer and politician, one of the Three Su's 三苏
• 车辙chē zhéwheel rut; vehicle track
• 改弦易辙gǎi xián yì zhéchange of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction…
• 濡沫涸辙rú mò hé zhéto help each other out in hard times (idiom)
• 凭轼结辙píng shì jié zhéto drive non-stop as fast as one can (idiom)
• 一改故辙yī gǎi gù zhécomplete change from the old rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction; a volte-face…
• 涸辙之鲋hé zhé zhī fùlit. a fish in a dried-out rut (idiom); fig. a person in dire straits
• 合辙儿hé zhé rerhua variant of 合辙
• 拿你没辙ná nǐ méi zhésee 拿你没办法

Characters built on 攵

These share the phonetic component 攵 (pū), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 撤chèto remove; to take away
• 澈chèclear (water); thorough

Characters that look like 辙

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

• 额éforehead; horizontal tablet or inscribed board; specified number or amount
• 缴jiǎoto hand in; to hand over; to pay; to capture (weapons); to seize
• 徽huībadge; emblem; insignia
• 镦dūnupsetting (forged pieces)
• 擞sǒuused in 抖擞
• 橛juéa peg; low post

Sounds the same

Read zhé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 哲wise; a sage
• 折to break; to fracture; to snap
• 乙turning stroke (in Chinese characters), aka 折
• 辄then; at once; always
• 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