轍 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

rut, wheel track

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • テツ
Kun (native)
  • わだちい
  • わだち
Other languages
  • 拼音che4
  • 拼音zhe2
  • 한글cheol
  • Hán-ViệtTriệt

Basics

Strokes
19 strokes
Radical
車(くるま)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+8F4D

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰車𰕎

Words using this kanji

  • わだち車輪の跡。わだち。rut, wheel track, furrow, groove
  • 轍叉てっさ鉄道などでレールが交叉する所。railway frog
  • 轍鮒てっぷにできた水溜まりの中でもがいている。危機が差し迫っていることの喩え。轍魚。person or thing in imminent danger, fish on the chopping board
  • 轍を踏むてつをふむ前の人と同じ失敗を繰り返す。to repeat someone's mistake, to make the same mistake as one's predecessor
  • 轍鮒の急てっぷのきゅうにできた水溜まりの中でもがいているのように、危機が差し迫っていること。轍鮒。轍魚。imminent danger, impending hardship

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(12 results)

Similar-looking kanji

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Lookup codes

SKIP
1-7-12
Four Corner
5804.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
7c12.1
Nelson
4640