辖
xiá HSK7

linchpin of wheel

辖 (轄) xiá
govern verb
to have jurisdiction over or be in charge of a region or organization

他辖下的五个村子都很富裕。

tā xiá xià de wǔ gè cūn​zi dōu hěn fù​yù.

The five villages under his jurisdiction are all very wealthy.

linchpin verb
a metal pin passed through the end of an axle to keep a wheel in position

轴头上的辖要是掉了，轮子就会脱落。

zhóu​tóu shàng de xiá yào​shi diào le, lún​zi jiù huì tuō​luò.

If the linchpin on the axle head falls off, the wheel will come loose.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,643rd most common 57.9 per million
Movie subtitles
2,669th most common 6.21 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.270 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
7.35 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
轄
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+8F96

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)