xiān xian

fresh; delicious; tasty

HSK 3 #958

Character data

HSK 3
Frequency 958th character
Radical ⿂ (195.6)
Strokes 14
Index # 3135
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

鲜 xiān
  1. 1. fresh
  2. 2. delicious
  3. 3. tasty
  4. 4. bright (in color)
  5. 5. delicacy
  6. 6. aquatic foods
  7. 7. fish
  8. 8. old variant of xiān
鲜 xiǎn
  1. 1. few
  2. 2. rare
  3. 3. variant of xiǎn
  4. 4. variant of xiǎn
  5. 5. old variant of xiǎn

Stroke order

鲜 stroke order diagram
鲜 stroke order animation

Words containing 鲜

Word Meaning
North Korea
South Korea
dish of fried potato, eggplant, green pepper
(coll.) teen idol (male)
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin
little virtue and meager abilities (idiom); I'm a humble person and not much use at anything (Song writer Ouyang Xiu ōu yáng xiū)
a common occurrence (idiom)
North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
the eight provinces of Yi dynasty Korea
Workers' Party of Korea, North Korea's party
Korean Peninsula
King Taejong of Joseon Korea (1367-1422), reigned 1400-1418
hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters
Korean written language
Korean ethnic group in China (mainly in northeast China)
Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper
talks on North Korea's nuclear program
People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea)
Korea Strait; Tsushima Strait (between Japan and Korea)
Korean 12-stringed zither; gayageum
Japanese colonial administration of Korea 1910-1945
Korean language
Joseon, last Korean dynasty (1392-1910)
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang zhāng róng and Jon Halliday
effective government requires minimal intervention