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仙人

xiān rén

2-character word

What 仙人 means

1. Daoist immortal
2. celestial being

The characters in 仙人

• 仙xiānimmortal
• 人rénperson; people

Example sentences

• 生活就像是舔仙人掌上的蜂蜜。
  Shēnghuó jiù xiàng shì tiǎn xiānrénzhǎng shàng de fēngmì.
  Life is like licking honey off a cactus.
• 你的嘴唇软绵绵的，就像仙人掌的表皮一样。
  Nǐ de zuǐchún ruǎnmiánmián de, jiù xiàng xiānrénzhǎng de biǎopí yīyàng.
  Your lips are soft like the surface of a cactus.
• 这两个民族都以鹿、小型猎物、啮齿动物甚至昆虫为生，但他们的主要食物来源可能是仙人掌、牧豆和山核桃等植物。
  Both peoples lived off deer, small game, rodents, and even insects, but their main food sources were probably plants such as prickly pear cactus, mesquite beans, and pecan.

Words starting with 仙人

• 仙人掌xiān rén zhǎngcactus
• 仙人球xiān rén qiúball cactus
• 仙人跳xiān rén tiàoconfidence trick in which a man is lured by an attractive woman
• 仙人掌果xiān rén zhǎng guǒprickly pear
• 仙人掌杆菌xiān rén zhǎng gǎn jūn(microbiology) Bacillus cereus

Sounds the same

Read xiān rén, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 先人ancestor; forefather; sb's late father