spokes of wheel

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
车 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

畐 sound component

  Sound component

  

to fill

Evolution

辐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
辐 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
辐 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
辐 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

spokes of wheel; spoke of a wheel

Most common words with 辐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

辐射

radiation

核辐射

nuclear radiation

辐照

irradiation

spoke of a wheel

轮辐

wheel spoke

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.1395% of movies

2458th most common character in movies

2428th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+8F90


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