zhé
Traditional: 轍
辙 (zhé) is a Chinese word meaning “rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. [che4]); (coll.) the direction of traffic; a rhyme (of a song, poem etc)”.
Meanings
- 1rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. [che4])
- 2(coll.) the direction of traffic
- 3a rhyme (of a song, poem etc)
- 4(dialect) (usu. after 有[you3] or 沒|没[mei2]) way; idea
Related words
重蹈覆辙lit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom)没辙at one's wit's end如出一辙to be precisely the same覆辙the tracks of a cart that overturned车辙wheel rut; vehicle track南辕北辙to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom)改弦易辙change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction一改故辙complete change from the old rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction凭轼结辙to drive non-stop as fast as one can (idiom)合辙on the same track合辙儿erhua variant of 合轍|合辙[he2 zhe2]找辙to look for a pretext