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仙

xiān

Taoist super-being

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 山 represents the sound. Simplified form of 僊.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

山 sound component

山  Sound component

shān

  

mountain

Evolution

仙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
仙 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
仙 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
仙 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
仙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

仙  

xiān

Taoist super-being, transcendent, immortal; immortal

仙 (僊) 

xiān

variant of 仙[xiān]

Most common words with 仙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

仙

immortal

仙女

fairy

神仙

Daoist immortal

仙境

fairyland

仙人掌

cactus

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]a[r]

sjen

xiān

immortal (n.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 8.6977% of movies

1856th most common character in movies

1255th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+4ED9

Shuowen

“僊，長生僊去。从人，从，亦聲。”


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