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轾 (traditional: 輊) is a phono-semantic compound: the radical 车 (from 車, 'cart') on the left provides the meaning of a wheeled vehicle, and the element 至 (zhì) on the right indicates the sound. It originally referred to a carriage whose front end sits lower than the rear, and today survives mainly in the compound 轩轾 (xuānzhì), where it contrasts with 轩 (high-front carriage) to metaphorically evaluate superiority and inferiority.
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