jú​niǎn

imperial carriage

horse carriage (old)

Components

Sound component
gòng together with
Meaning component
chē cart, vehicle

cart

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkloɡ

說文解字

大車駕馬也。从車共聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

niǎn, liǎn a hand-cart Simplified

Simplified form of . Depicts two people () pulling a chariot () together.

Components

Iconic component
fu, fū man
Iconic component
fu, fū man
Iconic component
chē cart, vehicle

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

a hand-cart Traditional

Depicts two people () pulling a chariot () together.

Components

Iconic component
fu, fū man
Iconic component
fu, fū man
Iconic component
chē cart, vehicle

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartljenX[r][a][n]ʔ cart drawn by men

說文解字

《說文》:“輦,輓車也。从車,从在車前引之。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica