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軌

guǐ

track

Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 九 represents the sound.

Components
車 meaning component

車  Meaning component

chē, jū

  

vehicle

九 sound component

九  Sound component

jiǔ

  

nine

Evolution

軌 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
軌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
軌 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
軌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

轨 (軌) 

guǐ

track, rut, path; course; path; track; rail

Most common words with 軌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

轨道

orbit

轨

course

出轨

to leave the rails

轨迹

locus

正轨

the right track

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

匭

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʷruʔ

kwijX

guǐ

wheel ruts


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.3407% of movies

1841st most common character in movies

1883rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Simplified

轨

Unicode

U+8ECC

Shuowen

“軌，車徹也。从車，九聲。”


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