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籼

xiān

Character

What 籼 means

1. long-grained rice
2. same as 秈

Words starting with 籼

• 籼稻xiān dàolong-grained rice (Indian rice, as opposed to round-grained rice)
• 籼米xiān mǐlong-grained rice (Indian rice, as opposed to round-grained rice 粳米

Words containing 籼

• 长籼cháng xiānlong-grained rice (Indian rice, as opposed to round-grained rice)

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
• 氙xiānxenon (chemistry)
• 岘xiànabbr. for 岘首山; Mt Xianshou in Hubei; steep hill
• 岍qiānname of a mountain

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
• 氙xenon (chemistry)
• 锨shovel
• 跹to manner of dancing; to walk around
• 祆Ahura Mazda, the creator deity in Zoroastrianism