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玄武

Xuán wǔ

2-character word

What 玄武 means

1. Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky)
2. (in Daoism) God of the north sky

The characters in 玄武

• 玄xuánblack; mysterious
• 武wǔmartial; military

Words starting with 玄武

• 玄武区Xuán wǔ QūXuanwu, a district of Nanjing City 南京市
• 玄武岩xuán wǔ yán(geology) basalt
• 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…

Sounds the same

Read Xuán wǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 旋舞whirling dance