轍

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

• 徹 撤

• 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

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

轍

1. wagon ruts; wheel tracks
2. path
3. way; method

   沒轍 / 没辙  ―  méizhé  ―  have no recourse

4. rhyme

   合轍 / 合辙  ―  hézhé  ―  in rhyme

Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of the pronunciation chè.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

• Go-on: でち (dechi)
• Kan-on: てつ (tetsu)
• Kun: わだち (wadachi, 轍)

Compound of 輪 (wa, “wheel”) +‎ 立ち (tachi, “standing”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 立つ tatsu, “to stand”, here in reference to the shape of the rut left standing after the passage of the wheel).[1][2] The tachi changes to dachi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) わだち [wàdáchí] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ɰᵝa̠da̠t͡ɕi]

轍 (hiragana わだち, rōmaji wadachi)

1. a wheel furrow, track, or rut

From Middle Chinese 轍 (MC ɖˠiᴇt̚, “wagon rut, wheel track”). The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing. Compare modern Min Nan reading tia̍t.

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) て​つ [téꜜtsù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [te̞t͡sɨᵝ]

轍 (hiragana てつ, rōmaji tetsu)

1. a wheel furrow, track, or rut
2. another person's mistake, a prior example (generally negative)

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

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轍 (triệt)

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