Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- xuán
English
- deep, profound, abstruse
- black
- Kangxi radical 95
- mysterious
- mysticism; metaphysical
- enigmatic; difficult to understand but seemingly meaningful
粵語
- 一啲非具體、冇辦法用科學解釋嘅嘢
- 形容人講嘢非常之難明，但又好似好有道理噉
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Variants
Words containing 玄
- 玄機jyun4 gei1
profound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism)
- 玄學jyun4 hok6
Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals
- 玄關jyun4 gwaan1
entrance hall; vestibule
- 玄門jyun4 mun4
the profound school in Buddhism
- 玄理jyun4 lei5
profound theory
- 玄遠jyun4 jyun5
profound
- 玄石jyun4 sek6
(literary) black stone (esp. one used for steles and tombstones); tombstone; stele
- 玄參jyun4 sam1
Ningpo figwort (Scrophularia ningpoensis)
- 玄虛jyun4 heoi1
(intentionally) mysterious; arcane
- 玄妙jyun4 miu6
mysterious
- 玄壇jyun4 taan4
The God of Yuen Tan, or Marshal Chiu Gong-ming, one of the Four Guardians of Daoism, he also known as the Armed God of Wealth. As his image is shown in dark face with serious attitude, so his name is borrowed to describe someone who is pouting or pulling a long face.
- 玄狐jyun4 wu4
silver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus)
- 玄武jyun4 mou5
Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky)
- 地玄dei6 jyun4
- 玄色jyun4 sik1
black (without gloss)
- 玄鐵jyun4 tit3
- 玄青jyun4 cing1
deep black
- 玄奧jyun4 ou3
abstruse
- 玄孫jyun4 syun1
great-great-grandson
- 玄乎jyun4 fu4
unreliable; incredible
- 玄秘jyun4 bei3
mystery
- 鄭玄zeng6 jyun4
Zheng Xuan (127-200), late Han scholar
- 玄米茶jyun4 mai5 caa4
genmaicha
- 玄幻jyun4 waan6
xuanhuan, a fusion of Western and Eastern fantasy (subgenre of Chinese fantasy fiction)