rèn

a block that keeps a wheel from moving

Components
車 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

cart

刃 sound component

  Sound component

rèn

  

knife edge

Evolution

軔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
軔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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rèn

a block that keeps a wheel from moving; brake

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nər(ʔ)-s

nyinH

rèn

wheel stopper


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5963rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

Unicode

U+8ED4

Shuowen

“軔,礙車也。从車,刃聲。”


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