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The character 轵 (traditional 軹) is a phono-semantic compound with the vehicle radical 车 on the left and the phonetic 只 on the right. Its original meaning was the end of an axle on a horse-drawn cart or chariot, a specific component of traditional wheeled vehicles. As carts and chariots became obsolete, this literal sense disappeared from common language; today, the character survives mostly in historical documents and as the proper noun Zhi, an ancient county in what is now Henan province.
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