yuán
axle
Phonosemantic compound. 车 represents the meaning and 袁 represents the sound. Simplified form of 轅.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 辕
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 |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3831st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8F95 |
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