滑轮 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

huá, hua slip, slide

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 骨 represents the sound.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

骨 Sound component

gǔ, gú bone

Change in sound

滑 and 骨 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
滑 *Nə-gˤrut
骨 *kˤut

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	hweat	Nə-gˤrut	slippery

說文解字

《說文》：“滑，利也。从水，骨聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

lún wheel Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 车 represents the meaning and 仑 represents the sound. Simplified form of 輪.

Components

车 Meaning component

chē cart, vehicle

仑 Sound component

lún, lùn logical reasons

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

lún wheel Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 侖 represents the sound.

Components

車 Meaning component

chē cart, vehicle

侖 Sound component

arrange

Character Evolution

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	lwin	[r]u[n]	wheel

說文解字

《說文》：“輪，有輻曰輪，無輻曰輇。从車，侖聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

滑 huá, hua slip, slide

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轮 lún wheel Simplified

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輪 lún wheel Traditional

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huá, hua slip, slide

lún wheel Simplified

lún wheel Traditional