rush forth

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
车 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

失 sound component

  Sound component

shī

  

lose

Evolution

轶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
轶 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
轶 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
轶 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

rush forth; surpass, excel; to excel; to surpass; to be scattered; variant of [yì], leisurely

Most common words with 轶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

轶事

anecdote

to excel

轶闻

anecdote

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4046th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+8F76


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