lūn
verb HSK 7-9 #20,727

Meanings

  1. 1 to swing; to brandish
  2. 2 to wave in a circle
  3. 3 to fling (money)

Examples

HSK 7-9
斧头劈柴
Tā lūn qǐ fǔtóu pīchái.
He swung the axe to chop firewood.
HSK 7-9
Bié lūn gēbo, xiǎoxīn pèngdào rén.
Don't swing your arms around - be careful not to hit anyone.

Tips

usage
specifically means to swing something heavy in a circular arc, like an axe, a hammer, or a fist. You would not use it for waving a hand; that is . A separate literary reading lún means 'to select', but it does not appear in modern words.

Components

radical
shǒu
hand (radical form of 手)
Left hand radical anchors in the manual-action family, here a sweeping, swinging motion of the arm. Hand-radical verbs of large physical movement include (wave), (thrash), (carry). It specifically means to swing something heavy in a wide arc.
phonetic
lún
order; logical sequence
Right supplies the sound, lún shifting to lūn. It is simplified from a fuller form and is the phonetic shared by (discuss), (wheel), (ethics). Here it works purely as a phonetic, lending no meaning to the swing action.

Stroke Order

lūn