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顯

xiǎn

make visible, clear

Phonosemantic compound. 㬎 represents the sound and 頁 represents the meaning.

Components
㬎 sound,meaning component

㬎  Sound Meaning component

xiǎn

  

visible, bright

頁 meaning component

頁  Meaning component

yè, xié

  

(head), page

Depicts a person whose head is emphasized.

Evolution

顯 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
顯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
顯 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
顯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

显 (顯) 

xiǎn

manifest, display; evident, clear; to make visible; to reveal; prominent; conspicuous; (prefix) phanero-

Most common words with 顯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

明显

clear

显示

to show

显然

clear

显得

to seem

显

to reveal

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰˤenʔ

xenX

xiǎn

display, manifest


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 69.7101% of movies

607th most common character in movies

469th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Simplified

显

Unicode

U+986F

Shuowen

“顯，頭明飾也。从頁，聲。”


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