輪

See also: 轮 and 輸

Translingual

Etymology

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

Han character

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

1. wheel
2. revolve, turn
3. recur

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

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Chinese

		-
trad.		輪
simp.		轮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lún (lun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): lùn
• Min Nan (POJ): lûn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lún
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄣˊ
    • Wade-Giles: lun²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luen
    • IPA ^(key): /lu̯ən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: leon⁴
    • Yale: lèuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loen⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /lɵn²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lùn
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /lun¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lûn
    • Tâi-lô: lûn
    • IPA (Taipei): /lun²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lun¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (輪, reconstructed)
Character (輪), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 諄 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 力迍切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/liuɪn/	/li̯uĕn/	/liuĕn/	/lʷin/	/lwin/	/lĭuĕn/	/ljuen/

Old Chinese pronunciation (輪, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
輪								lún								‹ lwin ›								/*[r]u[n]/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
輪					8663					侖					文					2					淪					/*run/

Definitions

輪

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Japanese

Kanji

輪

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. wheel; ring; loop

Readings

• On: りん (rin)
• Kun: わ (wa)

Compounds

• 花輪 (はなわ, hanawa): a garland of flowers; a wreath
• 輪番 (りんばん, rinban)
• 輪郭 (りんかく, rinkaku)
• 輪ゴム (わごむ, wagomu)
• 車輪 (しゃりん, sharin)
• 五輪 (ごりん, gorin)
• 指輪 (ゆびわ, yubiwa)
• 内輪 (うちわ, uchiwa)
• 輪切 (?, ?? )

Counter

輪 (hiragana りん, romaji -rin)

1. wheels
2. flowers

Noun

輪 (hiragana わ, romaji wa)

1. ring; circle

   広い輪を描いた。

   ひろいわをかいた。

   hiroi wa o kaita.

   [I] drew a broad circle.

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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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