Chinese Character Wiki

儇

xuān

clever

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

person

睘 sound component

睘  Sound component

qióng

  

round

Evolution

儇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
儇 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
儇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

儇  

xuān

clever, nimble; ingenious; frivolous

Most common words with 儇
Freq.
Word
Meaning

儇

ingenious

李儇

Li Xuan, personal name of nineteenth Tang emperor Xizong 僖宗[Xī​zhōng] (862-888), reigned 873-888

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʷʰen

xjwien

xuān

nimble, smart


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6574th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+5107

Shuowen

“儇，慧也。从人，睘聲。”


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