xiān
Taoist super-being
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 山 represents the sound. Simplified form of 僊.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]a[r] | sjen | xiān | immortal (n.) |
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 | 5 |
Unicode | U+4ED9 |
Shuowen | “僊,長生僊去。从人,从,亦聲。” |
Sources
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