辇路
niǎn​lù

imperial road

辇 niǎn, liǎn a hand-cart Simplified

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

Components

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

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

撵

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

路 lù road

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.

Components

足
足 Meaning component
zú foot
各
各 Sound component
gè each
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1 of 5 verified)

露璐潞鹭鷺

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartluHCə.rˤak-s road

說文解字

《說文》：“路，道也。从足，从各。”

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)

輦 a hand-cart Traditional

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

Components

夫
夫 Iconic component
fu, fū man
夫
夫 Iconic component
fu, fū man
車
車 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)

攆

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
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)