轮 (lún): wheel
轮 (lún) is a Chinese character meaning “wheel.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 车 (semantic) and 仑 (phonetic). It ranks #1095 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 轮 wheel. Its radical form 车 (cart) appears in many related characters such as 车 (chē, vehicle), 轻 (qīng, light), 辆 (liàng, measure word for vehicles).
Definitions
- wheel
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 轮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning | HSK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 轮椅noun | lún yǐ | wheelchair | 6 |
| 轮子noun | lún zi | wheel | 6 |
| 轮流verb | lún liú | to alternate | 6 |
| 轮船noun | lún chuán | steamship | 6 |
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 轮胎noun | lún tāi | tire |
| 车轮noun | chē lún | wheel |
| 轮廓noun | lún kuò | outline |
| 齿轮noun | chǐ lún | (machine) gear |
| 渡轮noun | dù lún | ferry boat |
| 左轮手枪noun | zuǒ lún shǒu qiāng | revolver |
| 轮班verb | lún bān | shift working |
| 轮回noun | lún huí | (neologism) (slang) to respond to a message after a very long delay (pun on 輪迴|轮回[lun2 h... |
| 油轮noun | yóu lún | tanker (ship) |
| 游轮noun | yóu lún | cruise ship |
| 滑轮noun | huá lún | block and tackle |
| 涡轮noun | wō lún | turbine |
| 转轮verb | zhuàn lún | rotating disk |
| 邮轮noun | yóu lún | ocean liner |
| 三轮车 | sān lún chē | pedicab |
轮 appears in 101 compound words: 41 as the first character, 50 as the last, and 9 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 轮 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
汽车轮胎需要定期检查气压，确保安全。
Qìchē lúntāi xūyào dìngqí jiǎnchá qìyā, quèbǎo ānquán.
Car tires need regular pressure checks to ensure safety.
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与伊朗新一轮谈判前 美国增兵施压
yú yī lǎng xīn yī lún tán pàn qián měi guó zēng bīng shī yā
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. . . mǔ gōng sī yuè zhī àn miàn wán chéng chāo yì měi yuán róng zī , xīn yī lún chāo . .
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měi guó hé yī dì èr lún jiān jiē tán pàn rì zài ruì shì rì nèi wǎ kāi shǐ jǔ háng
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你更喜欢滑冰还是轮滑？
Nǐ gèng xǐhuan huábīng háishi lúnhuá?
Which do you enjoy more, ice skating or roller skating?
讨厌！轮胎爆了！
Tǎoyàn! lúntāi bào le!
Shit! I've got a flat.
我得推我的自行车，因为有个轮胎漏气了。
Wǒ de tuī wǒ de zìxíngchē, yīnwèi yǒu gè lúntāi lòuqì le.
I had to push my bicycle because I had a flat tire.
渡轮上的乘客不多于一百人。
Dùlún shàng de chéngkè bù duōyú yī bǎi rén.
There were not more than one hundred passengers on board the ferry.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 车 (wheel) component
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