zhǎnniǎn

turn over

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
車 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

展 sound component

  Sound component

zhǎn

  

open

Definitions

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zhǎn

turn over, roll; roll over on side; turn half over

Most common words with 輾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

辗转

indirectly

turn half over

辗转反侧

to toss and turn restlessly (in the bed)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tre[n]ʔ

trjenX

zhǎn

輾轉 toss and turn (Ode 1.2, 145.3)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3535th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+8F3E


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