轍

to remove / to withdraw

rut / track / rhyme / (dialect) way / method

rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. [che4]) / (coll.) the direction of traffic / a rhyme (of a song, poem etc) / (dialect) (usu. after 有[you3] or 沒|没[mei2]) way; idea

variant of 攴[pu1]

to have children / to raise or bring up / to educate

surname Che

car / vehicle / CL:輛|辆[liang4] / machine / to shape with a lathe / Kangxi radical 159

war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess)

lit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom) / fig. to follow a path that led to failure in the past / to repeat a disastrous mistake

at one's wit's end / unable to find a way out

to be precisely the same / to be no different

the tracks of a cart that overturned / (fig.) a path that led to failure in the past

wheel rut; vehicle track

rut (of a wagon) / track

to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom)

change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction / to dance to a different tune

erhua variant of 合轍|合辙[he2 zhe2]

on the same track / in agreement / rhyming

lit. a fish in a dried out rut (idiom) / fig. a person in dire straits

to help each other out in hard times (idiom)

Su Zhe (1039-1112), Northern Song writer and calligrapher, one of the 三蘇|三苏[San1 Su1] and also one of the 唐宋八大家[Tang2 Song4 ba1 da4 jia1]

lit. a fish in a dried-out rut (idiom) / fig. a person in dire straits

complete change from the old rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction / a volte-face / to change old practices

see 拿你沒辦法|拿你没办法[na2 ni3 mei2 ban4 fa3]

to drive non-stop as fast as one can (idiom)

to look for a pretext

rut (made by vehicles) / (fig.) conventional ways