yuè
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 the pin joining the crossbar to the shaft of a horse-carriage (classical)

Examples

Xiǎo chē wú yuè yě bùnéng xíng.
A small carriage without its yoke-pin cannot be driven either.

Tips

history
is not used in modern Chinese. It is the classical name for the linchpin tying a horse-carriage's crossbar to its shaft, the counterpart of on an ox-cart; the two appear together in the 《论语》 parable that a man without trust is like a cart without its pin. The cart radical gives the meaning; supplies the sound.
register
Archaic and literary. You will meet only in classical quotation, etymology notes, and old dictionaries, never in speech.

Components

radical
chē
cart; vehicle
(cart) is the indexing radical, marking as a carriage fitting, paired in meaning with .
phonetic
phonetic element
on the right supplies the sound for , the reading having drifted from its source; it carries no meaning here.

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Stroke Order

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