You Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Carriage (chē) Wheel Kangxi strokes: 15 Page 1245, Entry 20 Pronounced lun Broad Rimes (Guangyun): The wheel of a carriage. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): That which has spokes is called a wheel; that without spokes is called a quan. Explanations of Names (Shiming): Wheel, signifies to encompass; it means that it permeates and surrounds completely. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Winter Officer, Record of Trades (Kaogongji): Examine a carriage starting from its wheels. Also, Wheel Man (Lunren), the name of a carriage official. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Winter Officer, Record of Trades (Kaogongji): The Wheel Man makes the wheels. Also, Guanglun, refers to the length and breadth of terrain. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Earth Officer, Grand Minister of Instruction (Da situ): Universally know the numbers of the breadth and length of the territories of the Nine Provinces. Commentary: East-west is called breadth, north-south is called length. Also, great. Book of Rites (Liji), Tan Gong: How magnificent and great it is. Commentary: This refers to being high and large in a spiraling, convoluted manner. Also, Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Zou Yang: Spiraling and winding. Commentary: To be crooked and twisted. Also, rotation, to revolve or turn. Also, Lunshi, a place name. Also rhyming with lian; pronounced lian. Lu Ji, Rhapsody on the Feather Fan (Yushan fu): Those who initiate are always simple, while those who conclude must be refined. Therefore, cooking began with heated stones, and jade carriages were based on crude wooden wheels. Also rhyming with lin; pronounced lin. Wang Jun, Poem on the Pacification of Wu (Ping Wu shi): The horses slackened their bits, and the carriage dragged its wheels. The flying dragon has already been established, and the heavenly mandate rests with Jin.