轮
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wheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate; classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 車 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 輪
- Common rank
- #481
- Unicode
- U+8F6E
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Formation & memory
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Words with 轮
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 法轮大法 | another name for 法輪功|法轮功[Fa3 lun2 gong1] | |
| 风水轮流 | see 風水輪流轉|风水轮流转[feng1 shui3 lun2 liu2 zhuan4] | |
| 风水轮流转 | fortunes rise and fall; times change | |
| 车轮子 | wheel | |
| 轮机手 | helmsman | |
| 小轮车 | BMX (bike); cycling BMX (sport) | |
| 三轮车 | pedicab; tricycle | |
| 轮台县 | Luntai, a county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng2 … | |
| 四轮马车 | chariot | |
| 三轮车夫 | pedicab driver | |
| 风火轮 | (martial arts) wind-and-fire wheel, weapon used in hand-to-hand fighting; (Daoism) a magic… | |
| 轮台古城 | ruins of Luntai city, archaeological site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙… | |
| 轮转机 | merry-go-round | |
| 转法轮 | to transmit Buddhist teaching; chakram or chakka (throwing disk) | |
| 轮子 | wheel; (derog.) Falun Gong practitioner; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 车轮战 | tactic of several persons or groups taking turns to fight one opponent; tag-team attack | |
| 一轮 | first round or stage (of a match, election, talks, planned policy etc) | |
| 单轮车 | unicycle | |
| 水轮 | waterwheel; millwheel | |
| 心轮 | anāhata or anahata, the heart chakra 查克拉, residing in the chest |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 仑 — compare how they read.