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輪

lún

wheel

Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 侖 represents the sound.

Components
車 meaning component

車  Meaning component

chē, jū

  

vehicle

侖 sound component

侖  Sound component

lún

  

arrange

Evolution

輪 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
輪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
輪 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
輪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

轮 (輪) 

lún

wheel; revolve, turn; recur; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate; by turn; classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn

Most common words with 輪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

轮

wheel

轮胎

tire

轮椅

wheelchair

轮流

to alternate

轮子

wheel

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]u[n]

lwin

lún

wheel


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 39.2440% of movies

981st most common character in movies

1096th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

轮

Unicode

U+8F2A

Shuowen

“輪，有輻曰輪，無輻曰輇。从車，侖聲。”


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