| 轅 | |||
| axle; magistrate\'s office; surname | |||
| Radical | 車车車 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 10 | Total Strokes | 17 |
| Mandarin reading | yuán | Cantonese reading | jyun4 |
| Japanese on reading | en | Japanese kun reading | nagae |
| Korean reading | wen | Vietnamese reading | |
| Simplified Variant(s) | 辕 | ||
| 轅 | [ yuán ] shafts of cart, yamen |
| ⇒ 南轅北轍 | [ nán yuán beǐ zhé ] to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom) |
| ⇒ 車轅 | [ chē yuán ] shaft (pulling a cart) |
| ⇒ 軒轅 | [ xuān yuán ] Xuan Yuan, personal name of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4] |
| ⇒ 軒轅 | [ xuān yuán ] two-character surname Xuanyuan |
| ⇒ 軒轅十四 | [ xuān yuán shí sì ] Regulus (constellation) |
| ⇒ 軒轅氏 | [ xuān yuán shì ] alternative name for the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝 |
| ⇒ 駕轅 | [ jià yuán ] to pull a carriage (of draft animal) |