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玄

xuán

Character

What 玄 means

1. black
2. mysterious

Words starting with 玄

• 玄机xuán jīprofound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism); mysterious principles
• 玄武Xuán wǔBlack Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky); (in Daoism) God of the north sky
• 玄奘Xuán zàngXuanzang (602-664), Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator who traveled to India…
• 玄妙xuán miàomysterious; profound; abstruse
• 玄学xuán xuéWei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals…
• 玄乎xuán hūunreliable; incredible
• 玄奥xuán àoabstruse; profound mystery; the mysteries of the universe
• 玄孙xuán sūngreat-great-grandson
• 玄幻xuán huànxuanhuan, a fusion of Western and Eastern fantasy (subgenre of Chinese fantasy fiction)
• 玄狐xuán húsilver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus)
• 玄理xuán lǐprofound theory; philosophical theory of Wei and Jin 玄学 sect
• 玄石xuán shí(literary) black stone (esp. one used for steles and tombstones); tombstone; stele…
• 玄秘xuán mìmystery; mysterious; occult
• 玄色xuán sèblack (without gloss); black with a hint of red in it
• 玄虚xuán xū(intentionally) mysterious; arcane
• 玄远xuán yuǎnprofound; abstruse mystery
• 玄关xuán guānentrance hall; vestibule
• 玄青xuán qīngdeep black
• 玄武区Xuán wǔ QūXuanwu, a district of Nanjing City 南京市
• 玄武岩xuán wǔ yán(geology) basalt
• 玄米茶xuán mǐ chágenmaicha; Japanese tea with added roasted brown rice
• 玄之又玄xuán zhī yòu xuánmystery within a mystery; the mysteries of the Dao according to Laozi 老子
• 玄武质熔岩xuán wǔ zhì róng yánbasalt; also written 玄熔岩
• 玄武门之变Xuán wǔ mén zhī biànXuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 killed his brothers…

Words containing 玄

• 故弄玄虚gù nòng xuán xūdeliberately mystifying; to make sth unnecessarily complicated
• 渊玄yuān xuánprofundity; depth
• 郑玄Zhèng XuánZheng Xuan (127-200), late Han scholar
• 唐玄宗Táng Xuán zōngTang Emperor Xuanzong (685-762), also known as Emperor Ming of Tang 唐明皇
• 房玄龄Fáng Xuán língFang Xuanling (579-648), Tang dynasty historian, compiler of History of Jin dynasty 晋书
• 赵玄坛Zhào Xuán tánZhao Xuantan, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk tradition and Taoism
• 天地玄黄tiān dì xuán huángfirst line of the Thousand Character Classic 千字文
• 白玄鸥bái xuán ōu(bird species of China) white tern (Gygis alba)
• 白顶玄鸥bái dǐng xuán ōu(bird species of China) brown noddy (Anous stolidus)
• 桓玄Huán XuánHuan Xuan (369-404), general involved in the break-up of Eastern Jin
• 九天玄女Jiǔ tiān Xuán nǚXuan Nü, a fairy in Chinese mythology

Characters that look like 玄

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

• 自zì(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
• 负fùto bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on
• 古gǔancient; old; paleo-
• 吉jílucky; giga- (meaning billion or 10^9)
• 亥hài12th earthly branch: 9-11 p.m., 10th solar month (7th November-6th December), year of the…

Sounds the same

Read xuán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 旋to revolve; a loop; a circle
• 悬to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement
• 璇(jade)
• 漩whirlpool; eddy; also pr. xuàn
• 琁beautiful jade; star
• 玹jadelike precious stone; jade-colored
• 嫙beautiful; fine
• 暶(literary) bright; (literary) beautiful; good-looking
• 㻽variant of 璇; also pr. suì
• 伭variant of 玄; variant of 悬