轍

Meaning

轍 centers on the deep groove left by repeated passage: a rut or wheel track, both literally on a road and figuratively as a fixed pattern.

• 途轍もないとてつもない

  extravagant; absurd; unbelievable; preposterous; unreasonable

• 轍わだち

  rut; wheel track; furrow; groove; footsteps; wake

• 前車の轍を踏むぜんしゃのてつをふむ

  to repeat someone's mistake; to make the same mistake as one's predecessor; to follow the ruts of a previous cart

• 前轍ぜんてつ

  wheel tracks left by vehicles that have passed before

• 前轍を踏むぜんてつをふむ

  to repeat someone's mistake; to make the same mistake as one's predecessor; to follow the ruts of a previous cart

• 転轍てんてつ

  switching or shunting (of a rail car)

• 転轍手てんてつしゅ

  switchman; pointsman; rail transport worker who operated railway switches (points)

• 転轍機てんてつき

  switch; points

• 轍を踏むてつをふむ

  to repeat someone's mistake; to make the same mistake as one's predecessor; to follow the ruts (of a previous cart)

• 轍叉てっさ

  railway frog

• 轍鮒てっぷ

  person or thing in imminent danger; fish on the chopping board

• 轍鮒の急てっぷのきゅう

  imminent danger; impending hardship

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