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薛

xuē

Character

What 薛 means

1. wormwood like grass (classical)

Other readings

薛 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Xuēsurname Xue; vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BC)

Example sentences

• 薛偏要在床上看电视
  Xuē piānyào zài chuáng shàng kàn diànshì
  Xue insists on watching TV in bed.
• 薛偏要在床上看电视。
  Xue insists on watching TV in bed.

Words starting with 薛

• 薛宝钗Xuē Bǎo chāiXue Baochai, female character in Dream of Red Mansions, married to Jia Baoyu 贾宝玉
• 薛仁贵Xuē Rén guìXue Rengui (614-683) great Tang dynasty general
• 薛城区Xuē chéng QūXuecheng, a district of Zaozhuang City 枣庄市
• 薛居正Xuē Jū zhèngXue Juzheng (912-981), Song historian and compiler of History of the Five Dynasties…
• 薛福成Xuē Fú chéngXue Fucheng (1838-1894), Qing official and progressive political theorist
• 薛定谔Xuē dìng èErwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), Austrian physicist
• 薛定谔方程Xuē dìng è fāng chéngSchrödinger's wave equation
• 薛稷Xuē JìXue Ji (649-713), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家
• 薛城Xuē chéngsee 薛城区

Words containing 薛

• 亚达薛西Yà dá xuē xīArtaxerxes

Characters that look like 薛

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

• 爵juéancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle; nobility
• 薄bómeager; slight; weak
• 藉jiè(literary) cushion; mat; (literary) to put some padding underneath
• 懈xièlax; negligent
• 燕yànswallow (family Hirundinidae); old variant of 宴
• 藓xiǎnmoss; lichen; moss on damp walls

Sounds the same

Read xuē, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 削to pare; to reduce; to remove
• 靴boots