fù zhé
Traditional: 覆轍
覆辙 (fù zhé) is a Chinese word meaning “the tracks of a cart that overturned; (fig.) a path that led to failure in the past”.
Meanings
- 1the tracks of a cart that overturned
- 2(fig.) a path that led to failure in the past
Characters in 覆辙
Related words
覆盖to cover覆to cover颠覆to topple (i.e. knock over)重蹈覆辙lit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom)没辙at one's wit's end天翻地覆sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion翻天覆地sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion翻来覆去to toss and turn (sleeplessly)如出一辙to be precisely the same翻云覆雨to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground辙rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. [che4])全军覆没total defeat of an army (idiom); fig. a complete wipeout