輪 — wheel, ring, circle

わ輪 wheel

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes

U+8F2A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #693 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1963 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

wheel
ring
circle
link
loop
counter for wheels and flowers

word

わ wa Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

輪(わ) wa ring 指(ゆび) 輪(わ) yubiwa ring

りん rin On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

五(ご) 輪(りん) gorin Olympics 輪(りん) 郭(かく) rinkaku outline

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

くるま車 car #159

侖 arrange in order

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#159 車 car