xuán
deep
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 玄
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
black | ||
mysterious principles | ||
mysterious | ||
(in Daoism) God of the north sky | ||
unreliable |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷˤi[n] | hwen | xuán | dark |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.6338% of movies
2898th most common character in movies
1717th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+7384 |
Shuowen | “玄，幽遠也。黑而有赤色者為玄。象幽而入覆之也。，古文玄。” |
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