辖制
xiá​zhì

control

辖 xiá, hé linchpin of wheel Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 车 represents the meaning and 害 represents the sound. Simplified form of 轄.

Components

车
车 Meaning component
chē cart, vehicle
害
害 Sound component
hài, hai injure

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

制 zhì control

Original meaning: break

Depicts cutting down a tree (未) with a knife (刂). Based on the original meaning "break". The meaning later shifted to "control".

Components

未
未 Iconic component
wèi not yet

Depicts a tree.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 未 than it was in ancient scripts.
刂
刂 Iconic component
dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.


Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1 of 2 verified)

掣製

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsyejHtet-s cut out, prepare

說文解字

《說文》：“制，裁也。从刀，从未。未，物成，有滋味，可裁斷。一曰止也。，古文制如此。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.357漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

轄 linchpin of wheel Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 害 represents the sound.

Components

車
車 Meaning component
chē cart, vehicle
害
害 Sound component
hài, hai injure

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthæt[ɡ]ˤratwheel-axle cap with linch-pin
Zhengzhangkʰaːds
ɡraːd

說文解字

車聲也。从車害聲。一曰轄，鍵也。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)