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轩

xuān

Character Traditional 軒

What 轩 means

1. pavilion with a view
2. high
3. tall
4. high fronted, curtained carriage (old)

Other readings

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

• Xuānsurname Xuan

Words starting with 轩

• 轩辕Xuān YuánXuan Yuan, personal name of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor 黄帝
• 轩然大波xuān rán dà bōhuge waves; (fig.) ruckus; controversy
• 轩冕xuān miǎn(literary) curtained carriage and ceremonial cap (symbols of a senior official)…
• 轩昂xuān ánghigh; lofty; elevated
• 轩槛xuān jiànrailings of a balcony
• 轩尼诗Xuān ní shīHennessy (cognac)
• 轩轩自得xuān xuān zì déto be delighted with oneself
• 轩掖xuān yèforbidden place
• 轩辕氏Xuān yuán shìalternative name for the Yellow Emperor 黄帝
• 轩辕十四Xuān yuán shí sìRegulus (constellation)

Words containing 轩

• 气宇轩昂qì yǔ xuān ángto have an imposing or impressive appearance; impressive appearance…
• 陶哲轩Táo Zhé xuānTerence Tao, Chinese-Australian mathematician, Fields medalist in 2006
• 不分轩轾bù fēn xuān zhìwell-matched; equally matched
• 器宇轩昂qì yǔ xuān ángvariant of 气宇轩昂

Characters that look like 轩

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

• 轮lúnwheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate
• 杆gǎnstick; pole; lever
• 抖dǒuto tremble; to shake out; to reveal
• 斩zhǎnto behead (as form of capital punishment); to chop
• 秆gǎnstalks of grain
• 郅zhìextremely; very

Sounds the same

Read xuān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 宣to declare (publicly); to announce
• 喧clamor; noise
• 暄genial and warm
• 萱orange day-lily (Hemerocallis flava)
• 瑄ornamental piece of jade
• 揎to roll up one's sleeves; to slap with the palm
• 儇(literary) ingenious; (literary) frivolous
• 愃well-being
• 晅light of the sun; to dry in the sun
• 箮bamboo flower; flowering bamboo
• 翾flirtatious; short flight
• 蓒a kind of smelly water plant