轴 zhóu axle
axle; pivot; shaft; axis
怎么记住“轴”: 车 car + 由 because = axle. The car stops dead on the motorway because something snapped underneath, and the mechanic lists the damage, axle and more.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
轴 = 车 car + 由 because
- 车 car meaning
- 由 because meaning + sound
The car stops dead on the motorway because something snapped underneath, and the mechanic lists the damage, axle and more.
How it came to be
The cart gives the meaning; the right part, here to pass through, gives the sound and the sense: the axle passes through the wheel.
用法
- Physical 'axle/shaft' (车轴 chēzhóu, cart axle) and the abstract 'axis' (地轴 dìzhóu, earth's axis; 轴心 zhóuxīn, pivot/Axis powers).
- Also the measure word / noun for a hanging scroll: 一轴山水画 (yí zhóu shānshuǐhuà) a landscape scroll.
- In opera, 压轴 (yāzhòu) is the star turn near the end of a program, hence 'climax act', read zhòu here.