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氙

xiān

Character

What 氙 means

1. xenon (chemistry)

Characters built on 山

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

• 嵌qiànto inlay; to embed; Taiwan pr. qiān
• 仙xiānimmortal
• 巅diānsummit
• 岘xiànabbr. for 岘首山; Mt Xianshou in Hubei; steep hill
• 岍qiānname of a mountain
• 籼xiānlong-grained rice; same as 秈

Characters that look like 氙

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

• 废fèito abolish; to abandon; to abrogate
• 役yìforced labor; corvée; obligatory task
• 岌jílofty peak; perilous
• 氘dāodeuterium 2H; heavy hydrogen, isotope of hydrogen having 1 neutron in its nucleus, so…
• 氚chuān(chemistry) tritium
• 氖nǎineon (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read xiān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 先beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now
• 鲜fresh; bright (in color); delicious
• 纤fine; delicate; minute
• 仙immortal
• 掀to lift (a lid); to rock; to convulse
• 暹sunrise
• 酰acid radical; -acyl (chemistry)
• 秈common rice
• 锨shovel
• 跹to manner of dancing; to walk around
• 祆Ahura Mazda, the creator deity in Zoroastrianism
• 籼long-grained rice; same as 秈