輪
- wheel, circular object;
- rotation, cycle, round;
Etymology
Phono-semantic compound:
車 (수레 차, “cart, vehicle”) — semantic, referring to vehicles/wheels.
侖 (생각할 륜, “order, arrangement”) — phonetic, providing sound.
Thus 輪 originally signified “the wheel of a cart”, and by extension came to mean “anything circular, a round, rotation, sequence.”
Usage in Korean
車輪 (차륜) — wheel of a vehicle
輪廻 (윤회) — cycle of rebirth, samsara
年輪 (연륜) — annual growth rings in trees; life experience
齒輪 (치륜) — gearwheel, cog
一輪 (일륜) — one round, a disk (often the sun or moon)
Words that derived from 輪
Additional notes
In Buddhist terminology, 輪 often means “wheel of Dharma” (法輪).
輪
바퀴
륜/윤
bakwi
ryun/yun
Kangxi radical:159, 車 + 8
Strokes:15
Unicode:U+8F2A
Cangjie input:
- 十十人一月 (JJOMB)
Composition:
- ⿰ 車 侖