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轍

轍

See also: 辙

Translingual

Han character

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

Related characters

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

Chinese

trad. 轍
simp. 辙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (徹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
徹 *tʰed
撤 *tʰed, *ded
澈 *ded
轍 *ded

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 轍
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 薛 (83)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 直列切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖˠiᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖᵚiɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡiæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖiat̚/
Li
Rong		 /ȡjɛt̚/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭɛt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi̯ɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhé
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 轍
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhé
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ drjet ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]ret/
English wheel-track

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 轍
Reading # 1/1
No. 1323
Phonetic
component		 徹
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 轍
Old
Chinese		 /*ded/

Definitions

轍

  1. wagon ruts, wheel tracks

Japanese

Kanji

轍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

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

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

轍 (triệt)

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