車軸

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Chinese

vehicle on land; car; machine
vehicle on land; car; machine; to shape with a lathe
 
 axis; axle
trad. (車軸) 車 軸
simp. (车轴) 车 轴

Pronunciation

Noun

車軸

  1. axletree; axle (Classifier: 根 m)

Synonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (車軸):
  • → Japanese: 車軸(しゃじく) (shajiku)
  • → Korean: 차축(車軸) (chachuk)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
車 軸
しゃ
Grade: 1 		じく
Grade: S
on'yomi goon

Etymology

Compound of 車(しゃ) (sha, “car; vehicle”) + 軸(じく) (jiku, “axis”).[1][2]

First cited to a text from 1002.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

車(しゃ)軸(じく) • (shajiku) ←しやぢく (syadiku)?

  1. axle, axletree
    Synonym: 軸 (yokogami)
  2. a very heavy rain, cats and dogs (from the idea of raindrops as big around as a cart's axle)
  3. short for 車軸草 (shajikusō, “clover”)

Verb

車(しゃ)軸(じく)する • (shajiku suru) ←しやぢく (syadiku)?suru (stem 車(しゃ)軸(じく)し (shajiku shi), past 車(しゃ)軸(じく)した (shajiku shita))

  1. to rain very heavily, to rain cats and dogs (from the idea of raindrops as big around as a cart's axle)

Inflection

Conjugation of "車軸する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 車軸し しゃじくし shajiku shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 車軸し しゃじくし shajiku shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 車軸する しゃじくする shajiku suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 車軸する しゃじくする shajiku suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 車軸すれ しゃじくすれ shajiku sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 車軸せよ¹
車軸しろ² 		しゃじくせよ¹
しゃじくしろ² 		shajiku seyo¹
shajiku shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 車軸される しゃじくされる shajiku sareru
Causative 車軸させる
車軸さす 		しゃじくさせる
しゃじくさす 		shajiku saseru
shajiku sasu
Potential 車軸できる しゃじくできる shajiku dekiru
Volitional 車軸しよう しゃじくしよう shajiku shiyō
Negative 車軸しない しゃじくしない shajiku shinai
Negative continuative 車軸せず しゃじくせず shajiku sezu
Formal 車軸します しゃじくします shajiku shimasu
Perfective 車軸した しゃじくした shajiku shita
Conjunctive 車軸して しゃじくして shajiku shite
Hypothetical conditional 車軸すれば しゃじくすれば shajiku sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
車軸

Noun

車軸 • (chachuk) (hangeul 차축)

  1. hanja form? of 차축 (“axle, axletree”)
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