轘

Translingual

Etymology

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

Han character

轘 (radical 159 車+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 十十田中女 (JJWLV), four-corner 5603₂)

1. tear asunder between chariots

References

• KangXi: page 1249, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38551
• Dae Jaweon: page 1728, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3558, character 11
• Unihan data for U+8F58

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Cantonese

Hanzi

轘 (Jyutping waan6, Yale waan6)

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Japanese

Kanji

轘

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. tearing someone in two by tying their legs to two carts moving in opposite directions (form of medieval punishment)

Readings

• On: かん (kan), げん (gen), けん (ken)
• Kun: くるまざき (kurumazaki)

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Korean

Hanja

轘 (hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune-Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

轘 (Pinyin huàn (huan4), Wade-Giles huan⁴)

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