You Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Carriage (chē) Kangxi Strokes: 16 Page 1245, Entry 28 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced ruan (third tone) Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhymes Meeting (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced ruan (third tone) Comprehensive Glossary (Yupian): Soft. Annals of Emperor Ming in the Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): Stable carriage with soft wheels. Commentary: Wrapping the wheels with cattails to make them soft. Also, a person who is weak or compliant is called ruan. Biographies of Moneymakers in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Wife and children were weak and compliant. Commonly written as the variant form ruan. Sometimes also written in a variant form (er).