Table 3. Traditional Chinese ‘Wheel’, ‘Axle’, ‘Yoke’ and ‘Seat’/ ‘Passenger-Compartment’

‘wheel’: this is ‘cart’ plus 侖 used as a phonetic (Harbaugh 2001, Sears 2013)
‘axle’: this is ‘cart’ plus 由 used as a phonetic (Harbaugh 2001, Sears 2013)
‘yoke’: this is ‘cart’ plus 厄 as a phonetic6
坐位 ‘seat’/‘passenger-compartment’: the first character deals with ‘sitting’, and the second with ‘place’, together yielding ‘sitting-place; seat’7 (Harbaugh 2001, Sears 2013)