Memory phrase for the character: 辙

辙

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Meaning track, rut, to remove

Pronunciation

zhé

Explanation

From left: vehicle 车/車, to give birth, educate 育 (The new born baby [=child 子 upside down, as head first at birth] has a body 月, that is born and raised), strike 攵

Mnemonic
 
The vehicle creates (= gives birth) with every strike (=pothole) a track/rut.

Radicals

车 vehicleSimplified from 車. Shows a hand-cart from top: axle 丨, loading area 日, two wheels 二. This sign 车 is similar to the simplified east 东 =東.
育 to give birth, raise
攴 rap, strikeShows originally a hand 又 with a whip 卜. It is usually simplified to 攵. Other radicals with a hand are: 又寸廾爫手扌彐右及尹君聿隶兼殳
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 Vocabulary

凭轼结辙 píng shì jié zhé  to drive non-stop as fast as one can (idiom)
重蹈覆辙 chóng dǎo fù zhé  to follow the track of an overturned cart; to repeat a disastrous policy
车辙 chē zhé  rut (of a wagon); track
覆辙 fù zhé  disastrous policy
覆辙 fù zhé  

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