Keyword
rut
- track
- stuck in a rut
- Frequency
- #3085
- Strokes
- 16
Readings
zhé
Mnemonic
Something left 育 by a cart 车 when it moves 攵
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
重蹈覆辙
lit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom); fig. to follow a path that led to failure in the past; to repeat a disastrous mistake
覆辙
the tracks of a cart that overturned; (fig.) a path that led to failure in the past
如出一辙
to be precisely the same; to be no different
没辙
at one's wit's end; unable to find a way out
辙
rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. chè); (coll.) the direction of traffic; a rhyme (of a song, poem etc); (dialect) (usu. after 有 (yǒu) or 没 (méi)) way; idea
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; to dance to a different tune
苏辙
Su Zhe (1039-1112), Song writer and politician, one of the Three Su's 三苏 (SānSū) and also one of the Eight Giants 唐宋八大家 (TángSòngbādàjiā)
车辙
wheel rut; vehicle track