Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zhé
English
- wagon ruts, wheel tracks
- rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. [che4])
- (coll.) the direction of traffic
- a rhyme (of a song, poem etc)
- (dialect) (usu. after 有[you3] or 沒|没[mei2]) way; idea
- trace of the wheel
粵語
- 本義指車輪走過後留下嘅痕跡
Variants
Words containing 轍
- 沒轍mut6 cit3
at one's wit's end
- 如出一轍jyu4 ceot1 jat1 cit3
to be precisely the same
- 重蹈覆轍cung4 dou6 fuk1 cit3
lit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom)
- 合轍hap6 cit3
on the same track
- 找轍zaau2 cit3
to look for a pretext
- 覆轍fuk1 cit3
the tracks of a cart that overturned
- 車轍ce1 cit3
wheel rut; vehicle track
- 蘇轍sou1 cit3
Su Zhe (1039-1112), Song writer and politician, one of the Three Su's 三蘇|三苏[San1 Su1] and also one of the Eight Giants 唐宋八大家[Tang2 Song4 ba1 da4 jia1]
- 故轍gu3 cit3
rut (made by vehicles)
- 南轅北轍naam4 jyun4 bak1 cit3
to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom)
- 涸轍之鮒kok3 cit3 zi1 fu6
lit. a fish in a dried-out rut (idiom)
- 一改故轍jat1 goi2 gu3 cit3
complete change from the old rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction
- 合轍兒hap6 cit3 ji4
erhua variant of 合轍|合辙[he2 zhe2]
- 改弦易轍goi2 jin4 jik6 cit3
change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction
- 更弦易轍gang1 jin4 ji6 cit3
- 憑軾結轍pang4 sik1 git3 cit3
to drive non-stop as fast as one can (idiom)
- 拿你沒轍naa4 nei5 mut6 cit3
see 拿你沒辦法|拿你没办法[na2 ni3 mei2 ban4 fa3]
- 濡沫涸轍jyu4 mut6 kok3 cit3
to help each other out in hard times (idiom)