轍 — kanji meaning “rut”
轍
rut, wheel track
- Meanings
- rut, wheel track
- On'yomi
- テツ (tetsu)
- Kun'yomi
- わだちい、わだち
- Strokes
- 19
- Newspaper frequency
- #2484 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 159
- Chinese reading
- chè, zhé — Chinese character page
Words with 轍
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 転轍機 | てんてつき tentetsuki | switch; points |
| 転轍 | てんてつ tentetsu | switching or shunting (of a rail car) |
| 転轍手 | てんてつしゅ tentetsushu | switchman; pointsman; rail transport worker who operated railway switches (points) |
| 轍叉 | てっさ tessa | railway frog |
| 前轍 | ぜんてつ zentetsu | wheel tracks left by vehicles that have passed before |
| 轍を踏む | てつをふむ tetsuofumu | to repeat someone's mistake; to make the same mistake as one's predecessor; to follow the ruts (of a previous cart) |
| 轍鮒の急 | てっぷのきゅう teppunokyuu | imminent danger; impending hardship |
| 轍鮒 | てっぷ teppu | person or thing in imminent danger; fish on the chopping board |
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