The Japanese Radical: 侖


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line up    侖

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT 3Joyo 4
wheel, ring, hoop
wa, RIN
Left: vehicle 車, right: (Chinese only) line-up 侖 (lid and a bundle of bamboo tablets 冊) Here: See the tablets as four wheels leaning upright against each-others
They belong to a vehicle but now they stand upright under a cover: The wheels.  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
debate, argument, opinion, discourse
RON
Left: word 言 (sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: (Chinese only) line up 侖 (lid on a bundle of bamboo writing tablets 冊)
Words are well lined-up in a debate.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
ethics, principles
RIN
Left: person 人, right: (Chinese only) line up 侖 (lid and bundle of bamboo writing tablets 冊)
(About the question) how persons can be below a lid next to each others: That's ethics.  

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