辕 yuán shaft
shaft; axle
怎么记住“辕”: 车 car + 袁 long robe = shaft. At the museum, a boy calls the wooden cart a car, so a guide in a long robe shows him the horse was tied to the shaft.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
辕 = 车 car + 袁 long robe
- 车 car meaning
- 袁 long robe sound
At the museum, a boy calls the wooden cart a car, so a guide in a long robe shows him the horse was tied to the shaft.
How it came to be
The cart gives the meaning and the sign for long robe gives the sound.
用法
- The 'shafts' of a cart to which the draft animal is hitched, mostly seen in the idiom 南辕北辙 (nányuán-běizhé), pointing the shafts south to head north, i.e. acting in a way that defeats your own goal.