辖 (xiá): linchpin (used to fasten a wheel to an axle), (bound form) to govern, to have jurisdiction over
辖 (xiá) is a Chinese character meaning “linchpin (used to fasten a wheel to an axle).” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 车 (semantic) and 害 (phonetic). It ranks #1632 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 辖 cart. Its radical form 车 (cart) appears in many related characters such as 车 (chē, vehicle), 轻 (qīng, light), 辆 (liàng, measure word for vehicles).
Definitions
- linchpin (used to fasten a wheel to an axle)
- (bound form) to govern
- to have jurisdiction over
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 管辖verb | guǎn xiá | to administer |
| 辖区noun | xiá qū | administrative region |
| 直辖市noun | zhí xiá shì | municipality, namely: Beijing 北京, Tianjin 天津, Shanghai 上海 and Chongqing 重慶|重庆, the first level administrative subdivi... |
| 统辖verb | tǒng xiá | to govern |
| 中央直辖市 | zhōng yāng zhí xiá shì | municipality, namely: Beijing 北京, Tianjin 天津, Shanghai 上海 and Chongqing 重慶|重庆, the first level administrative subdivi... |
| 市辖区noun | shì xiá qū | city district (a county-level administrative unit under prefecture-level cities, or sub-prefecture-level under sub-pr... |
| 下辖verb | xià xiá | to administer |
| 省辖市noun | shěng xiá shì | provincial city |
| 辖制verb | xiá zhì | to control |
| 直辖verb | zhí xiá | to govern directly |
辖 appears in 10 compound words: 20 as the first character, 40 as the last, and 40 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 辖 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
我在字典里查到了辖字的详细解释。
wǒ zài zì diǎn lǐ chá dào le xiá zì de xiáng xì xiè shì .
I looked up the detailed explanation of the character "辖" in the dictionary.
审核通过的二类微短剧,由省、自治区、直辖市人民政府广播电视主管部门颁发批准文件。
shěn hé tōng guò de èr lèi wēi duǎn jù , yóu shěng , zì zhì qū , zhí xiá shì rén mín zhèng fǔ guǎng bō diàn shì zhǔ guǎn bù mén bān fā pī zhǔn wén jiàn .
Approved Category II micro-short dramas shall be issued approval documents by the competent authorities for radio and television of the people’s governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government.
相当于案子刚进行到起诉送达、法官确认管辖权和初步排期这一步。
xiāng dāng yú àn zǐ gāng jìn háng dào qǐ sù sòng dá , fǎ guān què rèn guǎn xiá quán hé chū bù pái qī zhè yī bù .
This is equivalent to the stage where the case has just reached the point of service of the complaint, the judge’s confirmation of jurisdiction, and the initial scheduling of a hearing.
淮南是“中国成语典故之城”和“二十四节气之城”,其下辖的寿县古称寿春,曾是楚国都城。
huái nán shì zhōng guó chéng yǔ diǎn gù zhī chéng hé èr shí sì jié qì zhī chéng , qí xià xiá de shòu xiàn gǔ chèn shòu chūn , céng shì chǔ guó dōu chéng .
Huainan is known as the “City of Chinese Idioms and Historical Anecdotes” and the “City of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms.” Shouxian County, under its jurisdiction, was formerly known as Shouchun and once served as the capital of the State of Chu.
李逸洋感谢古屋圭司 痛批中国长臂管辖太荒谬
lǐ yì yáng gǎn xiè gǔ wū guī sī tòng pī zhōng guó cháng bì guǎn xiá tài huāng miù
Li Yiyang thanks Keiji Furuya and strongly criticizes China’s “long-arm jurisdiction” as absurd
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 车 (cart) component
Frequently Asked Questions
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