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轅

轅

See also: 辕

Translingual

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

Chinese

trad. 轅
simp. 辕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (袁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
薳 *ɢʷalʔ
袁 *ɢʷan
園 *ɢʷan
轅 *ɢʷan
猿 *ɢʷan
榬 *ɢʷan
溒 *ɢʷan
遠 *ɢʷanʔ, *ɢʷans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢʷan) : semantic 車 ‎(“carriage”) + phonetic 袁 ‎(OC *ɢʷan).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 轅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 雨元切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦʉɐn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣiuɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦuan/
Li
Rong		 /ɣiuɐn/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭwɐn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯wɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yuán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 轅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yuán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjwon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷa[n]/
English carriage-pole

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 轅
Reading # 1/1
No. 16222
Phonetic
component		 袁
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 袁
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷan/

Definitions

轅

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Compounds

  • 北轅適楚／北辕适楚
  • 北轍南轅／北辙南辕
  • 南轅北轍／南辕北辙 (nányuánběizhé)
  • 張堪折轅／张堪折辕
  • 拜倒轅門／拜倒辕门
  • 攀轅扣馬／攀辕扣马
  • 攀轅臥轍／攀辕卧辙
  • 攀轅遮道／攀辕遮道
  • 改轅易轍／改辕易辙
  • 行轅／行辕
  • 車轅／车辕
  • 軒轅／轩辕
  • 轅下駒／辕下驹
  • 轅固／辕固
  • 轅門／辕门 (yuánmén)
  • 轅門射戟／辕门射戟
  • 轘轅／轘辕 (Huányuán)

Japanese

Kanji

轅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

轅 (viên)

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