輪

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See also: 轮 and 輸
輪 U+8F2A, 輪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8F2A
← 輩
[U+8F29] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 輫 →
[U+8F2B]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

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

References[edit]

  • 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[edit]

trad. 輪
simp. 轮

Glyph origin[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

輪

  1. wheel
  2. Short for 輪船／轮船 (lúnchuán, “ship”).
  3. edge, rim
  4. round (of talks, performance, etc.)
  5. Classifier for such rounds.
  6. to take turns
    輪到你了。 / 轮到你了。  ―  Lún dào nǐ le.  ―  It's your turn.
    Ngo5 dang2 zo2 sap6 gei2 fan1 zung1 dou1 zung6 mei6 leon4 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.
  7. (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.
  8. Classifier for the moon.

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 輪

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

輪

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. wheel; ring; loop; hoop

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Counter[edit]

輪 (hiragana りん, rōmaji -rin)

  1. wheels
  2. flowers
    一 (いち)輪 (りん)の花 (はな)が咲 (さ)く
    ichirin no hana ga saku
    a single flower blooms

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

輪 (hiragana わ, rōmaji 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[edit]

  1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  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

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

輪 (luân, lon, luôn)

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