"玄" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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Structure
Decomp. 亠幺
Prononciation
Mandarin xuán
Entry Methods
Pinyin xuan2
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Cangjie
YVI
卜女戈
Sijiao 73.2
Wubi YXU
CNS 11643 1-4668
Encodages (hexa)
Unicode U+7384
GB2312 D0FE
BIG5 A5C8
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 xuán black / mysterious
Results beginning with 玄
 xuán jī profound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism) / mysterious principles
 xuán miào mysterious / profound / abstruse
 xuán guān entrance hall / vestibule
 Xuán zàng Xuanzang (602-664), Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator who traveled to India 629-645
 xuán xué Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals / translation of metaphysics (also translated 形而上學|形而上学)
 xuán ào abstruse / profound mystery / the mysteries of the universe
 xuán xū deceitful trick / mystery / unfathomable
 xuán shēn Ningpo figwort (Scrophularia ningpoensis) / root of Ningpo figwort (used in TCM)
 xuán hū unreliable / incredible
 xuán qīng deep black
 xuán sūn great-great-grandson
 xuán hú silver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus)
 xuán huàn xuanhuan, a fusion of Western and Eastern fantasy (subgenre of Chinese fantasy fiction)
 xuán lǐ profound theory / philosophical theory of Wei and Jin 玄學|玄学 / sect
 xuán mì mystery / mysterious / occult / abstruse doctrine (e.g. religious)
 xuán nu:3 Xuan
 Xuán pǔ mythical fairyland on Kunlun Mountain 崑崙|昆仑[Kun1 lun2]
 xuán sè black (without gloss) / black with a hint of red in it
 xuán shí magnetite Fe3O4
 Xuán wǔ Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky) / (in Daoism) God of the north sky
 xuán yuǎn profound / abstruse mystery
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 xuán wǔ yán basalt (geology) / lava
 xuán mǐ chá genmaicha / Japanese tea with added roasted brown rice
 Xuán tù jùn Xuantu commandery (108 BC-c. 300 AD), one of four Han dynasty commanderies in north Korea
 Xuán wǔ qū Xuanwu (Black tortoise) district of Nanjing City 南京市 / in Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏
 xuán zhī yòu xuán mystery within a mystery / the mysteries of the Dao according to Laozi 老子[Lao3 zi3]
 xuán wǔ yán qū basaltic environment
 Xuán wǔ mén zhī biàn Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 / killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗
 xuán wǔ zhì róng yán basalt / also written 玄熔岩[xuan2 rong2 yan2]
Approximate Results for 玄
 Zhèng Xuán Zheng Xuan (127-200), late Han scholar
 Huán Xuán Huan Xuan (369-404), general involved in the break-up of Eastern Jin
 yuān xuán profundity / depth
 bái xuán ōu (bird species of China) white tern (Gygis alba)
 Fáng Xuán líng Fang Xuanling (579-648), Tang dynasty historian, compiler of History of Jin dynasty 晉書|晋书[Jin4 shu1]
 tài xuán jīng Tai
 Táng Xuán zōng Tang Emperor Xuanzong (685-762), also known as Emperor Ming of Tang 唐明皇[Tang2 Ming2 huang2], reign name of seventh Tang emperor 李隆基[Li3 Long1 ji1], reigned 712-756
 Zhào Xuán tán Zhao Xuantan, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk tradition and Taoism
 gù nòng xuán xū deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated
 bái dǐng xuán ōu (bird species of China) brown noddy (Anous stolidus)
 Jiǔ tiān Xuán nu:3 Xuan Nü, a fairy in Chinese mythology
 tiān dì xuán huáng first line of the Thousand Character Classic 千字文[Qian1 zi4 wen2]
 hóng liú xuán wǔ yán traps / flood basalt
 zhěn zhuàng xuán wǔ yán pillow lava (geology) / pillow basalt
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