南辕北辙 nányuánběizhé▶ no tener nada en común

Stroke order

南辕北辙 is written in 44 strokes across 4 characters.

• 南 — 9 strokes
• 辕 — 14 strokes
• 北 — 5 strokes
• 辙 — 16 strokes

Related words

• 北极ártico
• 指南针Brújula
• 南sur
• 北方norte
• 北京Pekín

南辕北辙 is pronounced nányuánběizhé and means “no tener nada en común”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 南辕北辙 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.