轍

See also 辙

Translingual

simpl.		辙
trad.		轍

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 車 (“wagon”) + phonetic 徹 (彳 removed from phonetic) – wagon tracks.

Han character

轍 (radical 159 車+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 十十卜月大 (JJYBK), four-corner 5804₀)

1. wagon ruts, wheel tracks

Related characters

• 徹 撤

References

• KangXi: page 1248, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38524
• Dae Jaweon: page 1727, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3557, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8F4D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

轍 (simplified 辙, Yale chit3)

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Japanese

Kanji

轍

Readings

• On: てつ (tetsu)
• Kun: わだち (wadachi)

Noun

轍 (hiragana わだち, romaji wadachi)

1. wheel rut, furrow

轍 (hiragana てつ, romaji tetsu)

1. wheel rut, furrow
2. another person's mistake

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Korean

Hanja

轍 (hangeul 철, revised cheol, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏl, Yale chel)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

轍 (simplified 辙, pinyin chè (che4), Wade-Giles ch'e⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

轍 (triệt)