Radical 乛

2 strokes

Notice how this differs from “child” (Character 17); here there is no third stroke through the middle.

This is our second pair of Wild West and spaceship stories (see Character 54); in this case it is a pair of “wheel” stories.

le is a particle which comes at the end of a sentence to mark a transition, such as the completion of an action, or the emergence of a new situation. liǎo means “to complete” or “finish with (something)”. For the character picture we’ve used “complete” as the meaning.

1.

/ For the expedition to the new planet, the robot has brought plenty of spare wheels so that he can change them whenever there is a transition to a different sort of terrain — just his luck that this is a water world!

2.

/ (The stagecoach has broken down) When the repairs to the wheel are complete the two teddies rush around calling loudly to the passengers to get back on board.