xuàn

shine

Components
火 meaning component

  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

fire

玄 sound component

  Sound component

xuán

  

deep

Evolution

炫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
炫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xuàn

shine, glitter; show off, flaunt; to dazzle; to boast; to show off; (slang) cool; awesome

Most common words with 炫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to dazzle

炫耀

dazzling

炫目

to dazzle

炫弄

to show off

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.5193% of movies

2334th most common character in movies

3292nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+70AB

Shuowen

“炫,燿燿也。从火,玄聲。”


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