轔

See also: 辚

轔 U+8F54, 轔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8F54 ← 轓 [U+8F53] CJK Unified Ideographs 轕 → [U+8F55]

Translingual

Han character

轔 (Kangxi radical 159, 車+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 十十火木手 (JJFDQ), four-corner 5905₉, composition ⿰車粦)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1249, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38542
• Dae Jaweon: page 1727, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3557, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8F54

Chinese

trad.		轔
simp.		辚

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (粦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
潾	*rriːn, *rin
膦	*renʔ
憐	*riːn
燐	*rin, *rins
鄰	*rin
轔	*rin, *rins
嶙	*rin, *rinʔ
粼	*rin, *rins
磷	*rin, *rins
疄	*rin, *rins
麟	*rin
鱗	*rin
璘	*rin
翷	*rin
瞵	*rin, *rins
獜	*rin, *reːŋ
驎	*rin
鏻	*rin, *rins, *reːŋ
繗	*rin
僯	*rinʔ
橉	*rinʔ, *rins
撛	*rinʔ, *rins
遴	*rins
粦	*rins
甐	*rins

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *rin, *rins): semantic 車 (“carriage”) + phonetic 粦 (OC *rins).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lín (lin²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁴ / leon⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lín
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lín
    • Wade–Giles: lin²
    • Yale: lín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lin
    • Palladius: линь (linʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: leon⁴ / leon⁶
    • Yale: lèuhn / leuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loen⁴ / loen⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lên⁴ / lên⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵn²¹/, /lɵn²²/

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• Middle Chinese: lin, linH

Rime
Character	轔	轔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	力珍切	良刃切
Baxter	lin	linH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liɪn/	/liɪnH/
Pan Wuyun	/lin/	/linH/
Shao Rongfen	/ljen/	/ljenH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lin/	/linH/
Li Rong	/liĕn/	/liĕnH/
Wang Li	/lĭĕn/	/lĭĕnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li̯ĕn/	/li̯ĕnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lín	lìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lan4	lan6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*rin/, /*rins/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	轔	轔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8196	8219
Phonetic component	粦	粦
Rime group	眞	眞
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	㷠	遴
Old Chinese	/*rin/	/*rins/
Notes		同轥

Definitions

轔

1. (Classical) sound of rumbling of wheels
2. (Classical) threshold; doorsill; doorstep
3. (Classical) wheel

Synonyms

• (threshold):

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• 地方 (di⁵ fan) (Hengyang Xiang)
• 戶填 / 户填 (Hokkien)
• 戶限 / 户限 (hùxiàn) (literary)
• 戺 (shì) (Classical Chinese)
• 柣 (zhì) (Classical Chinese)
• 梱 (kǔn) (Classical Chinese)
• 榍 (xiè) (Classical Chinese)
• 檻 / 槛 (kǎn)
• 門地伏 / 门地伏 (mon³ ei⁵ fuuk⁴) (Taishanese)
• 門填 / 门填 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 門墊 / 门垫 (muòng-dâing) (Eastern Min)
• 門岸 / 门岸 (mn̂g-hōaⁿ) (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 門槧 / 门椠 (mun⁴ caam⁵) (Cantonese)
• 門檻 / 门槛 (ménkǎn)
• 門第 / 门第 (Teochew)
• 門限 / 门限 (ménxiàn)
• 門階 / 门阶 (ménjiē)
• 閫 / 阃 (kǔn) (literary)
• 閾 / 阈 (yù) (literary)
• 限 (xiàn) (literary, or in compounds)
• 面填 (bīn-tǔiⁿ) (Quanzhou Hokkien)

• (wheel): 輪子／轮子 (lúnzi)

Compounds

• 殷轔
• 轔轔 / 辚辚 (línlín)
• 轔轢 / 辚轹
• 隱轔 / 隐辚

References

• “轔”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 轔

轔

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. rumbling of vehicles
2. threshold

Readings

• Go-on: りん (rin)
• Kan-on: りん (rin)
• Kun: ひびき (hibiki, 轔き)

Korean

Hanja

轔 (eumhun 수레 소리 린 (sure sori rin), word-initial (South Korea) 수레 소리 인 (sure sori in))

1. rumbling of cartwheels
2. cartwheel
3. doorsill
4. to trample
5. to hit with a cart
6. flourishing, prosperous