Chinese Word: 辙 - Talking Chinese English Dictionary

辙 (Trad.: 轍)Polyphone (多音字)HSK 6

Total strokes: 16; Radical: 車

Ideographic:Something left 育 by a cart 车 when it moves 攵

Character Formation:

⿲ Left to middle and right
- 车 [ chē ] cart, vehicle; to move in a cart
- 育 [ yù ] to produce, to give birth to; to educate
- 攵 [ pū ] to rap, to tap; script; to let go

Similar Characters: 澈撤

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Stroke order image for Chinese character 辙

Pinyin: chè

English Definition:to remove; to withdraw

Pinyin: zhé

English Definition:rut; track; rhyme; (dialect) way; method

Chinese Definition:
①车轮压的痕迹：覆辙。车辙。南辕北辙。
②车行的一定路线：上下辙。
③诗词、歌曲、杂曲所押的韵：辙口。合辙押韵。
④办法，主意：没辙了。
⑤途径，门路。

Example Words:

覆辙	fù zhé	the tracks of a cart that overturned; (fig.) a path that led to failure in the past
如出一辙	rú chū yī zhé	to be precisely the same; to be no different
没辙	méi zhé	at one's wit's end; unable to find a way out
重蹈覆辙	chóng dǎo fù zhé	lit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom); fig. to follow a path that led to failure in the past; to repeat a disastrous mistake
南辕北辙HSK 6	nán yuán běi zhé	to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom)