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軋

yà, gá, zhá

crush by weight

Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 乚 represents the sound.

Components
車 meaning component

車  Meaning component

chē, jū

  

vehicle

乚 sound component

乚  Sound component

yǐn, yà

  

turning stroke

Evolution

軋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
軋 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
軋 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
軋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

轧 (軋) 

yà

crush by weight; grind; to crush; to knock sb down with a vehicle

轧 (軋) 

Yà

surname Ya

轧 (軋) 

gá

to crush together (in a crowd); to make friends; to check (accounts)

轧 (軋) 

zhá

to roll (steel)

Most common words with 軋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

轧

to crush

冷轧

cold-rolling

轧钢

to roll steel (into sheets or bars)

轧机

steel rolling mill

轧制

rolling steel

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qˤrət

'eat

yà

crush


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3269th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Simplified

轧

Unicode

U+8ECB

Shuowen

“軋，也。从車，乙聲。”


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