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輪

輪

See also: 轮 and 輸

Translingual

Han character

輪 (radical 159 車+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十十人一月 (JJOMB), four-corner 58027, composition ⿰車侖)

References

  • KangXi: page 1245, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38400
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1722, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3540, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8F2A

Chinese

trad. 輪
simp. 轮

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (侖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蜦 *ruːls, *run
綸 *kruːn, *ɡ·run
論 *ruːn, *ruːns, *run
崘 *ruːn
掄 *ruːn, *run
菕 *ruːn
惀 *ruːnʔ, *run
睔 *ɡ·ruːnʔ, *kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
碖 *ruːnʔ, *ruːns
溣 *ruːns
倫 *run
淪 *run
輪 *run
侖 *run
陯 *run
鯩 *run
棆 *run
踚 *run
耣 *runʔ
錀 *pqʰlun

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 輪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 諄 (47)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力迍切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lʷin/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lwin/
Li
Rong		 /liuĕn/
Wang
Li		 /lĭuĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯uĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lún
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 輪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lún
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lwin ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]u[n]/
English wheel

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 輪
Reading # 1/1
No. 8663
Phonetic
component		 侖
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 淪
Old
Chinese		 /*run/

Definitions

輪

  1. wheel
  2. Short for 輪船／轮船 (lúnchuán, “ship”).
  3. edge, rim
  4. round (of talks, performance, etc.)
  5. to take turns
    輪到你了。 / 轮到你了。  ―  Lún dào nǐ le.  ―  It's your turn.
    我等咗十幾分鐘都仲未輪到我，真係離晒譜。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    我等咗十几分钟都仲未轮到我，真系离晒谱。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    Ngo5 dang2 zo2 sap6 gei2 fan1 zung1 dou1 zung6 mei6leon4 dou3 ngo5, zan1 hai6 lei4 saai3 pou2. [Jyutping]
    I've waited for over ten minutes now and it's still not my turn; this is ridiculous.
  6. (comparing people's ages) a cycle of Chinese zodiac, twelve years
    我比他大一輪。 / 我比他大一轮。  ―  Wǒ bǐ tā dà yī lún.  ―  I'm 12 years older than him.
  7. Classifier for moon.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

輪

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. wheel; ring; loop; hoop

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
輪
りん
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Counter

輪 ‎(hiragana りん, romaji -rin)

  1. wheels
  2. flowers

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
輪
わ
Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

輪 ‎(hiragana わ, romaji wa)

  1. ring; circle
    広 (ひろ)い輪 (わ)を描 (か)いた。
    Hiroi wa o kaita.
    I drew a broad circle.

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

輪 • ‎(ryun>yun) (hangeul 륜>윤, revised ryun>yun, McCune-Reischauer ryun>yun, Yale lyun>yun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

輪 (luân, lon, luôn)

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