Chinese symbol for “sleeper”
轨枕
guǐ zhěn
Traditional: 軌枕
sleeper; tie
The closest CC-CEDICT match for sleeper is 轨枕 (guǐ zhěn), defined as: sleeper; tie.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “sleeper”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 轨枕.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 轨道 (軌道) | guǐ dào | track (for trains etc); orbit (of a satellite) |
| 轨迹 (軌跡) | guǐ jì | locus; orbit |
| 出轨 (出軌) | chū guǐ | to be derailed; to go off the rails; (fig.) to overstep the bounds |
| 接轨 (接軌) | jiē guǐ | railtrack connection; to integrate into sth |
| 轨道交通 (軌道交通) | guǐ dào jiāo tōng | metro; rapid transit |
| 铁轨 (鐵軌) | tiě guǐ | rail; railroad track |
| 枕头 (枕頭) | zhěn tou | pillow |
| 高枕无忧 (高枕無憂) | gāo zhěn wú yōu | to sleep peacefully (idiom); (fig.) to rest easy |
See also: Japanese symbol for “sleeper”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.