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轮

lún

HSK 5 Character Traditional 輪

What 轮 means

1. wheel; disk; ring
2. steamship
3. to take turns; to rotate
4. classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn

Example sentences

• 轮到谁了？
  Whose turn is it?
• 轮到我了。
  It's now my turn.
• 轮到您了。
  It's your turn.
• 轮到你了。
  It's your turn.
• 轮子不转。
  The wheel doesn't turn.
• 轮到齐莉。
  It's Ziri's turn.

Words starting with 轮

• 轮流lún liúto alternate; to take turns
• 轮胎lún tāitire; pneumatic tire
• 轮廓lún kuòoutline; silhouette
• 轮船lún chuánsteamship; steamer; steamboat
• 轮到lún dàoto be (sb's or sth's) turn
• 轮回lún huí(Buddhism) samsara; cycle of rebirth; to recur cyclically…
• 轮椅lún yǐwheelchair
• 轮子lún ziwheel; (derog.) Falun Gong practitioner
• 轮番lún fānin turn; one after another
• 轮奸lún jiānto gang rape
• 轮渡lún dùferry
• 轮换lún huànto rotate; to take turns
• 轮盘lún pánroulette; wheel
• 轮班lún bānshift working
• 轮任lún rènrotating appointment (e.g. presidency of EU)
• 轮作lún zuòrotation of crops (to preserve fertility of soil)
• 轮候lún hòuto wait one's turn
• 轮值lún zhíto take turns on duty
• 轮指lún zhǐcircular finger movement (in playing plucked instrument); strumming
• 轮机lún jīturbine (abbr. for 涡轮机; engine (of a ship)
• 轮次lún cìin turn; by turns; lap
• 轮种lún zhòngrotation of crops
• 轮空lún kōng(sports) bye; to get a bye; (of an employee) to be not scheduled at work for a period of…
• 轮训lún xùntraining in rotation

Words containing 轮

• 法轮fǎ lún(Buddhism) Dharma wheel – symbol of Buddhist teaching and its spread
• 三轮车sān lún chēpedicab; tricycle
• 车轮chē lúnwheel
• 齿轮chǐ lún(machine) gear; pinion (gear wheel)
• 游轮yóu lúncruise ship
• 年轮nián lúnannual ring; growth ring
• 后轮hòu lúnrear wheel
• 前轮qián lúnfront wheel
• 渡轮dù lúnferry boat
• 客轮kè lúnpassenger ship
• 巨轮jù lúnlarge ship; large wheel
• 转轮zhuàn lúnrotating disk; wheel; rotor
• 滑轮huá lúnblock and tackle
• 货轮huò lúnfreighter; cargo ship
• 油轮yóu lúntanker (ship)
• 涡轮wō lúnturbine
• 多轮duō lúnin many stages; multilayered; multipronged (attack)
• 导轮dǎo lúnguide pulley; foreword; preface
• 心轮xīn lúnanāhata or anahata, the heart chakra 查克拉, residing in the chest
• 月轮yuè lúnfull moon
• 水轮shuǐ lúnwaterwheel; millwheel
• 班轮bān lúnregular passenger or cargo ship; regular steamship service
• 色轮sè lúncolor wheel
• 首轮shǒu lúnfirst round (of a competition etc)

Characters built on 仑

These share the phonetic component 仑 (lún), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 论lùnopinion; view; theory
• 伦lúnhuman relationship; order; coherence
• 沦lúnto sink (into ruin, oblivion); to be reduced to
• 纶lúnto classify; to twist silk; silk thread
• 抡lūnto swing (one's arms, a heavy object); to wave (a sword, one's fists); to fling (money)
• 囵lúnused in 囫囵

Characters that look like 轮

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 给gěito; for; for the benefit of
• 转zhuǎnto turn; to change direction; to transfer
• 轻qīnglight; easy; gentle
• 抢qiǎngto fight over; to rush; to scramble
• 杨yángpoplar
• 抡lūnto swing (one's arms, a heavy object); to wave (a sword, one's fists); to fling (money)

Sounds the same

Read lún, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 伦human relationship; order; coherence
• 仑to arrange
• 纶to classify; to twist silk; silk thread
• 沦to sink (into ruin, oblivion); to be reduced to
• 抡to select
• 囵used in 囫囵
• 婨(used in female names) (old)
• 菕(archaic) tree (exact species unknown)
• 𬬭(metal); roentgenium (chemistry)
• 论abbr. for 论语