xiān

Taoist super-being

Evolution

僊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

xiān

Taoist super-being, transcendent, immortal

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xiān

variant of [xiān]

Most common words with 僊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

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


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

14

Unicode

U+50CA

Shuowen

“僊,長生僊去。从人,从,亦聲。”


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