辕 — Chinese character
辕
yuán
axle; magistrate's office; surname
- Pinyin
- yuán
- Radical
- 159 ⾞ (Cart)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 车 袁
- Formation
- pictophonetic — wheel; meaning component 车; sound component 袁
- Traditional
- 轅
Common words with 辕
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 南辕北辙 (南轅北轍) | nán yuán běi zhé | to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom) |
| 车辕 (車轅) | chē yuán | shaft of a traditional animal-drawn vehicle (cart, carriage, wagon etc), connecting the harness to the vehicle body |
| 驾辕 (駕轅) | jià yuán | to pull a carriage (of draft animal) |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.