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xiàn

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xiàn Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
xiàn | xian4
English translation
county, district, subdivision

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About xiàn

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Number of strokes

16

Traditional form

xiàn

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

District  xiàn  borders xiàn also provides the pronunciation

Etymology of xiàn

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

県系

Explanation

Simplified form of xiàn . Pictograph of a severed head ( shǒu ) hanging on a rope () from a tree (). Based on the original meaning "hang" or "suspend". The current meaning is a phonetic loan. The traditional component was removed for simplification.

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Words with xiàn

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
xiàn county xiàn
县政府 xiàn zhèng fǔ county administration縣政府
县城 xiàn chéng county seat縣城
县委 xiàn wěi CPC county committee縣委
县级 xiàn jí county level縣級
县长 xiàn zhǎng county's head commissioner縣長
叶县 Yè xiàn Ye county in Pingdingshan 平頂山|平顶山 Píng dǐng shān [Píng​dǐng​shān], Henan葉縣
知县 zhī xiàn county head magistrate (old)知縣
市县 shì xiàn towns and counties市縣
林县 Lín xiàn Lin county in Henan林縣
沙县 Shā xiàn Sha county in Sanming 三明 Sān míng [Sān​míng], Fujian沙縣
静冈县 Jìng gāng xiàn Shizuoka prefecture southwest of Tokyo, Japan靜岡縣
冲绳县 Chōng shéng xiàn Okinawa prefecture, Japan沖繩縣
万县 Wàn xiàn Wanxian port city on the Changjiang or Yangtze river in Sichuan, renamed Wanzhou district in Chongqing municipality in 1990萬縣
华县 Huá xiàn Hua county in Shaanxi華縣
秋田县 Qiū tián xiàn Akita prefecture, northeast Japan秋田縣
和县 Hé xiàn He county in Chaohu 巢湖 Cháo hú [Cháo​hú], Anhui和縣
县令 xiàn lìng county magistrate (during Tang to Qing times)縣令
开县 Kāi xiàn Kai county in Wanzhou suburbs of north Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan開縣
同安县 Tóng ān xiàn former Tong'an county, now Tong'an district 同安區|同安区 Tóng ān qū [Tóng​'ān​qū] of Xiamen city, Fujian同安縣

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