轮

wheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate; classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn

8 strokes Dict coverage rank #481 U+8F6E

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

车 (semantic, “wheel”) + 仑 (phonetic, lún)

components: 车仑

wheel · Heisig RSH #466

lifeguard + 车 car

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 仑

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 仑 (lún) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
仑 sound component	lún	logical reasons, logical order
沦	lún	sunk, submerged; to perish, to be lost
囵	lún	all, complete, entire
抡	lūn	to swing, to flourish, to brandish

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
法轮大法	Fǎ lún Dà fǎ	another name for 法輪功\|法轮功[Fa3 lun2 gong1]
风水轮流	fēng shuǐ lún liú	see 風水輪流轉\|风水轮流转[feng1 shui3 lun2 liu2 zhuan4]
风水轮流转	fēng shuǐ lún liú zhuàn	fortunes rise and fall; times change
车轮子	chē lún zi	wheel
轮机手	lún jī shǒu	helmsman
小轮车	xiǎo lún chē	BMX (bike); cycling BMX (sport)
三轮车	sān lún chē	pedicab; tricycle
轮台县	Lún tái Xiàn	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	sì lún mǎ chē	chariot
三轮车夫	sān lún chē fū	pedicab driver
风火轮	fēng huǒ lún	(martial arts) wind-and-fire wheel, weapon used in hand-to-hand fighting; (Daoism) a magic…
轮台古城	Lún tái gǔ chéng	ruins of Luntai city, archaeological site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙…
轮转机	lún zhuǎn jī	merry-go-round
转法轮	zhuǎn fǎ lún	to transmit Buddhist teaching; chakram or chakka (throwing disk)
轮子	lún zi	wheel; (derog.) Falun Gong practitioner; CL:個\|个[ge4]
车轮战	chē lún zhàn	tactic of several persons or groups taking turns to fight one opponent; tag-team attack
一轮	yī lún	first round or stage (of a match, election, talks, planned policy etc)
单轮车	dān lún chē	unicycle
水轮	shuǐ lún	waterwheel; millwheel
心轮	xīn lún	anāhata or anahata, the heart chakra 查克拉, residing in the chest