U+8F46 "轆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8F46 "轆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily functions as a noun meaning "wheel" or "pulley" and is also used as a verb to describe the act of turning or rotating, such as a wheel turning. It is a component in compound words like "轆轤" (lùlu), which refers to a windlass or a pulley system used for drawing water from a well, and it often appears in historical texts related to mechanics, transportation, and everyday tools in East Asian cultures. The character is constructed with the radical 車 (chē, meaning "vehicle" or "cart") on the left, indicating its semantic connection to wheeled objects, and the phonetic component 鹿 (lù, meaning "deer") on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation. In modern usage, "轆" is less common in simplified Chinese but remains standard in Traditional Chinese and is recognized in literary and technical contexts, as well as in names and classical idioms.