| 辕 | |||
| axle; magistrate\'s office; surname | |||
| Radical | 車车車 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 10 | Total Strokes | 14 |
| Mandarin reading | yuán | Cantonese reading | jyun4 |
| Japanese on reading | Japanese kun reading | ||
| Korean reading | Vietnamese reading | ||
| Traditional Variant(s) | 轅 | axle; magistrate\'s office; surname | |
| 辕 | [ yuán ] shafts of cart, yamen |
| ⇒ 南辕北辙 | [ nán yuán beǐ zhé ] to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom) |
| ⇒ 车辕 | [ chē yuán ] shaft (pulling a cart) |
| ⇒ 轩辕 | [ xuān yuán ] Xuan Yuan, personal name of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4] |
| ⇒ 轩辕 | [ xuān yuán ] two-character surname Xuanyuan |
| ⇒ 轩辕十四 | [ xuān yuán shí sì ] Regulus (constellation) |
| ⇒ 轩辕氏 | [ xuān yuán shì ] alternative name for the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝 |
| ⇒ 驾辕 | [ jià yuán ] to pull a carriage (of draft animal) |