轅

See also 辕

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 車 (“carriage”) + phonetic 袁

Han character

轅 (radical 159 車+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 十十土口女 (JJGRV), four-corner 5403₂)

1. axle
2. magistrate's office
3. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: page 1247, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38483
• Dae Jaweon: page 1725, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3548, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8F45

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Cantonese

Hanzi

轅 (simplified 辕, Yale yun4)

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Japanese

Kanji

轅

Readings

• On: えん (en)
• Kun: ながえ (nagae)

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Korean

Hanja

轅 (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune-Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

轅 (simplified 辕, pinyin jiāo (jiao1), yuán (yuan2), Wade-Giles chiao¹, yüan²)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

轅 (hiuæn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

轅 (viên)