车辙

車轍
chēzhé
noun #45,775

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 wheel rut
  2. 2 wheel track

Examples

HSK 4
Dìshang yǒu liǎng dào chēzhé.
There are two wheel ruts on the ground.
HSK 7-9
Xià le yí yè yǔ, tǔlù shàng de chēzhé lǐ jīmǎn le shuǐ.
After a night of rain, the ruts in the dirt road were full of water.

Tips

culture
辙 'rut' is behind two well-known idioms: 涸辙之鲋, Zhuangzi's fish gasping in a dried-up rut, someone in urgent need of help; and 重蹈覆辙, to follow the ruts of a cart that overturned, repeating someone else's mistake.

Stroke Order

车 chē
辙 zhé