yuán
axle
Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 袁 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 轅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom) | ||
Xuan Yuan, personal name of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huángdì] | ||
yamen | ||
shaft (pulling a cart) | ||
alternative name for the Yellow Emperor 黄帝 |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷa[n] | hjwon | yuán | carriage-pole |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3831st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8F45 |
Shuowen | “轅,輈也。从車,袁聲。” |
Sources
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