玄

On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1.

xuán ㄒㄩㄢˊ

    • black
    • mysterious

Other words read xuán

In the same tone

  • 璇 xuán (jade)
  • 悬 xuán hang or suspend
  • 旋 xuán revolve
  • 漩 xuán whirlpool
  • 玹 xuán jadelike precious stone

All 9 words read xuán

xuan with other tones

  • 选 xuǎn choose
  • 宣 xuān declare
  • 轩 xuān high
  • 萱 xuān orange day-lily
  • 喧 xuān clamor

All 45 words read xuan in any tone

Other words read xuán

In the same tone

  • 璇 xuán (jade)
  • 懸 xuán hang or suspend
  • 旋 xuán revolve
  • 漩 xuán whirlpool
  • 玹 xuán jadelike precious stone

All 9 words read xuán

xuan with other tones

  • 選 xuǎn choose
  • 宣 xuān declare
  • 軒 xuān high
  • 萱 xuān orange day-lily
  • 喧 xuān clamor

All 45 words read xuan in any tone

How 玄 is written

    部首 radical
    玄
    笔画 strokes
    5
    结构 structure
    独体字

    玄 as a 部首

    玄 is a 部首 (bùshǒu), a radical. A Chinese dictionary files every character under one of them, and this one files 4 under 玄. Look a character up by the 玄 radical

    Easy to confuse with 玄

    Words with 玄

    Starting with 玄

    • 玄武岩 xuánwǔyán basalt
    • 玄武 xuánwǔ Black Tortoise
    • 玄学 xuánxué translation of metaphysics
    • 玄奘 xuánzàng Xuanzang (602-664), Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator who traveled to India 629-645
    • 玄机 xuánjī profound theory

    All 27 words starting with 玄

    Ending with 玄

    • 郑玄 zhèngxuán Zheng Xuan (127-200), late Han scholar
    • 桓玄 huánxuán Huan Xuan (369-404), general involved in the break-up of Eastern Jin
    • 玄之又玄 xuánzhīyòuxuán mystery within a mystery
    • 渊玄 yuānxuán profundity

    Containing 玄

    • 唐玄宗 tángxuánzōng Tang Emperor Xuanzong (685-762), also known as Emperor Ming of Tang 唐明皇 tángmínghuáng, reign name of seventh Tang emperor 李隆基 lǐlōngjī, reigned 712-756
    • 房玄龄 fángxuánlíng Fang Xuanling (579-648), Tang dynasty historian, compiler of History of Jin dynasty 晋书 jìnshū
    • 故弄玄虚 gùnòngxuánxū deliberately mystifying
    • 赵玄坛 zhàoxuántán Zhao Xuantan, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk tradition and Taoism
    • 九天玄女 jiǔtiānxuánnǚ Xuan Nü, a fairy in Chinese mythology

    All 8 words containing 玄

    Words with 玄

    Starting with 玄

    • 玄武岩 xuánwǔyán basalt
    • 玄武 xuánwǔ Black Tortoise
    • 玄學 xuánxué translation of metaphysics
    • 玄奘 xuánzàng Xuanzang (602-664), Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator who traveled to India 629-645
    • 玄機 xuánjī profound theory

    All 27 words starting with 玄

    Ending with 玄

    • 鄭玄 zhèngxuán Zheng Xuan (127-200), late Han scholar
    • 桓玄 huánxuán Huan Xuan (369-404), general involved in the break-up of Eastern Jin
    • 玄之又玄 xuánzhīyòuxuán mystery within a mystery
    • 淵玄 yuānxuán profundity

    Containing 玄

    • 唐玄宗 tángxuánzōng Tang Emperor Xuanzong (685-762), also known as Emperor Ming of Tang 唐明皇 tángmínghuáng, reign name of seventh Tang emperor 李隆基 lǐlōngjī, reigned 712-756
    • 房玄齡 fángxuánlíng Fang Xuanling (579-648), Tang dynasty historian, compiler of History of Jin dynasty 晋书 jìnshū
    • 故弄玄虛 gùnòngxuánxū deliberately mystifying
    • 趙玄壇 zhàoxuántán Zhao Xuantan, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk tradition and Taoism
    • 九天玄女 jiǔtiānxuánnǚ Xuan Nü, a fairy in Chinese mythology

    All 8 words containing 玄

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