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冼

Xiǎn

Character

What 冼 means

1. surname Xian

Words starting with 冼

• 冼星海Xiǎn Xīng hǎiXian Xinghai (1905-1945), violinist and composer, known for patriotic wartime pieces…

Characters built on 先

These share the phonetic component 先 (xiān), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 宪xiànstatute; constitution
• 酰xiānacid radical; -acyl (chemistry)
• 跣xiǎnbarefooted
• 筅xiǎnbamboo brush for utensils

Characters that look like 冼

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 视shì(literary, or bound form) to look at
• 洗xǐto wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs); to shuffle (cards etc)
• 抱bàoto hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug
• 胞bāoplacenta; womb; born of the same parents
• 庞páng(bound form) huge; (bound form) numerous and disordered; (bound form) face
• 浇jiāoto pour liquid; to irrigate (using waterwheel); to water

Sounds the same

Read Xiǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 险danger; dangerous; rugged
• 显to make visible; to reveal; prominent
• 洗used in 洗马
• 鲜few; rare
• 铣shining metal; (old) the 16th of the month (abbreviation used in telegrams)
• 藓moss; lichen; moss on damp walls
• 狝to hunt in autumn (archaic)
• 蚬basket clam (clam of family Corbiculidae); (esp.) Corbicula leana 真蚬
• 跣barefooted
• 燹conflagration
• 姺name of an ancient state
• 崄precipitous; rugged