Unicode: U+8F95

Pinyin: yuán

Definition

* 车前驾牲畜的两根直木。 ~马。车~。驾~。南~北辙。 * 旧时指军营、官署的外门,借指衙署。 ~门。行( xíng )~

axle; magistrate"s office; surname

Structure

辕 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Qin Script
c. 475–206 BCE (Qin, Warring States → Qin dynasty)
Qin-area character forms attested on bamboo/wood slips (e.g., Shuihudi, deposited 217 BCE), overlapping chronologically with the standardization of seal script and the emergence of clerical tendencies.Wikipedia ->
71_EE4571_EE46
Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
27_8F45

Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC