辙
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rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. [che4]); (coll.) the direction of traffic; a rhyme (of a song, poem etc); (dialect) (usu. after 有[you3] or 沒|没[mei2]) way; idea
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 車 +12
- Structure
- Left–middle–right 左中右
- Traditional
- 轍
- Common rank
- #2,567
- Unicode
- U+8F99
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Words with 辙
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 如出一辙 | to be precisely the same; to be no different | |
| 合辙儿 | erhua variant of 合轍|合辙[he2 zhe2] | |
| 一改故辙 | complete change from the old rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction; a volte-face; to c… | |
| 改弦易辙 | change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction; to dance to a dif… | |
| 车辙 | wheel rut; vehicle track | |
| 合辙 | on the same track; in agreement; rhyming | |
| 拿你没辙 | see 拿你沒辦法|拿你没办法[na2 ni3 mei2 ban4 fa3] | |
| 苏辙 | Su Zhe (1039-1112), Song writer and politician, one of the Three Su's 三蘇|三苏[San1 Su1] and … | |
| 没辙 | at one's wit's end; unable to find a way out | |
| 南辕北辙 | to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom) | |
| 故辙 | rut (made by vehicles); (fig.) conventional ways | |
| 重蹈覆辙 | lit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom); fig. to follow a path that led… | |
| 找辙 | to look for a pretext | |
| 覆辙 | the tracks of a cart that overturned; (fig.) a path that led to failure in the past | |
| 凭轼结辙 | to drive non-stop as fast as one can (idiom) | |
| 濡沫涸辙 | to help each other out in hard times (idiom) | |
| 涸辙之鲋 | lit. a fish in a dried-out rut (idiom); fig. a person in dire straits |