Chinese Character Wiki
鮮

xiān, xiǎn

fresh

Phonosemantic compound. 魚 represents the meaning and 祥 represents the sound.

Components
魚 meaning component

魚  Meaning component

yú

  

fish

祥 sound,remnant component

祥  Sound Remnant component

xiáng

  

good luck

Evolution

鮮 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
鮮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鲜 (鮮) 

xiān

fresh, new, delicious; rare, few; fresh; bright (in color); delicious; tasty; delicacy; aquatic foods

鲜 (鮮) 

xiǎn

few; rare

Most common words with 鮮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

新鲜

freshness

朝鲜

North Korea

鲜

fresh

鲜血

blood

鲜花

flower

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

癬 蘚

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s][a]r

sjen

xiān

fresh; good

*s[a]r

sjen

xiān

鮮卑 *s[a]r.pe Xiānbēi

*[s][e]rʔ

sjenX

xiǎn

rare, few


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 27.7911% of movies

1290th most common character in movies

958th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

鲜

Unicode

U+9BAE

Shuowen

“鮮，魚名，出貉國。从魚，羴省聲。”


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