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yuán

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yuán Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
yuán | yuan2
English translation
shafts of cart
yamen
axle; magistrate's office; surname

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About yuán

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Number of strokes

14

Traditional form

yuán

Contains the radical

Chē

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

Learning hint

wheel

Etymology of yuán

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

车袁

Semantic compound

Chē

Phonetic compound

yuán

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. Chē represents the meaning and yuán represents the sound. Simplified form of yuán .

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Words with yuán

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
南辕北辙 nányuánběizhé to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom)南轅北轍
轩辕 Xuān Yuán Xuan Yuan, personal name of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝 Huáng dì [Huáng​dì]軒轅
yuán yamen yuán
车辕 chē yuán shaft (pulling a cart)車轅
轩辕氏 Xuān yuán shì alternative name for the Yellow Emperor 黄帝 Huáng dì 軒轅氏
驾辕 jià yuán to pull a carriage (of draft animal)駕轅

yuán Decomposition & Compounds

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yuán Decomposition

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