xuān

carriage

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
車 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

干 sound component

  Sound component

gāngàn

  

interfere

Evolution

軒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
軒 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
軒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

xuān

carriage; high; wide; balcony; surname of the Yellow Emperor; pavilion with a view; tall; high fronted, curtained carriage (old)

() 

Xuān

surname Xuan

Most common words with 軒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

high

轩然大波

huge waves

轩辕

Xuan Yuan, personal name of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huáng​dì]

轩尼诗

Hennessy (cognac)

气宇轩昂

impressive appearance

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰa[r]

xjon

xuān

nobleman's carriage


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2389th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

Unicode

U+8ED2

Shuowen

“軒,曲輈藩車。从車,干聲。”


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