xuàn
device for carrying a tripod
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 鉉
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
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Roh Moo-hyun (1946-2009), South Korean lawyer and politician, president 2003-2008 | ||
commonly used in Korean names, transcribed as "hyun" | ||
Xu Xuan (-991), author of commentaries on Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字註|说文解字注[ShuōwénJiězìZhù] |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.2082% of movies
3073rd most common character in movies
4809th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9249 |
Shuowen | “鉉,舉鼎也。《易》謂之鉉,《禮》謂之鼏。从金,玄聲。” |
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