轅

See also: 辕

轅	U+8F45, 轅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8F45

← 轄
[U+8F44]

CJK Unified Ideographs

轆 →
[U+8F46]

Translingual

Han character

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

axle
magistrate's office
used as a surname

References

KangXi: page 1247, character 33

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38483

Dae Jaweon: page 1725, character 14

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3548, character 6

Unihan data for U+8F45

Chinese

trad.		轅
simp.		辕
2nd round simp.		𰹷

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／形声, OC *ɢʷan) : semantic 車／车 (“carriage”) + phonetic 袁 (OC *ɢʷan).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yuán (yuan²)
(Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴
Min Nan (POJ): oân

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yuán
  - Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yuán
  - Wade–Giles: yüan²
  - Yale: ywán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuan
  - Palladius: юань (juanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jyun⁴
  - Yale: yùhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yun⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oân
  - Tâi-lô: uân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oaan
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan¹³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /uan²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan²³/

Middle Chinese: /ɦʉɐn/

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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷa[n]/
(Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷan/

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 (chēyuán)
軒轅／轩辕 (xuānyuán)

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／𮝹辕 (Huányuán)

Japanese

Kanji

轅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

shaft

Readings

On (unclassified): えん (en)

Kun: ながえ (nagae)

Korean

Hanja

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

axle
magistrate's office

Vietnamese

Han character

轅: Hán Nôm readings: viên

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