Chinese Character Wiki

嫺

xián

refined

Evolution

嫺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

嫺  

xián

refined, elegant, gracious

娴 (嫺) 

xián

variant of 嫻|娴[xián]

Most common words with 嫺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

娴熟

adept

娴

elegant

娴静

gentle and refined

娴雅

refined

娴淑

ladylike

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3209th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+5AFA

Shuowen

“嫺，雅也。从女，閒聲。”


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