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xuān

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xuān Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
xuān | xuan1
English translation
pavilion; carriage; balcony

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About xuān

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Number of strokes

10

Traditional form

xuān

Contains the radical

chē

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

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Etymology of xuān

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

車干

Semantic compound

chē

Phonetic compound

gān

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. Chē represents the meaning and gān represents the sound. Simplified form of xuān .

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Words with xuān

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
xuān high xuān
轩然大波 xuān rán dà bō huge waves軒然大波
轩辕 Xuān Yuán Xuan Yuan, personal name of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝 Huáng dì [Huáng​dì]軒轅
轩尼诗 Xuān ní shī Hennessy (cognac)軒尼詩
气宇轩昂 qì yǔ xuān áng impressive appearance氣宇軒昂
轩昂 xuān áng high軒昂
陶哲轩 Táo Zhé xuān Terence Tao, Chinese-Australian mathematician, Fields medalist in 2006陶哲軒
器宇轩昂 qì yǔ xuān áng impressive appearance器宇軒昂
轩辕氏 Xuān yuán shì alternative name for the Yellow Emperor 黄帝 Huáng dì 軒轅氏
不分轩轾 bù fēn xuān zhì well-matched不分軒輊

xuān Decomposition & Compounds

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