xuán
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) a fine jade (variant of 璇)
  2. 2 (rare, read liáo) a name of jade; fine silver

Examples

Měi xuán bǎoshí.
Beautiful jade and precious stones.

Tips

history
Not used as an ordinary word — it is an old variant of (fine jade), kept alive mainly as an auspicious given-name character. The radical (here in its -shaped side form) files it among precious stones.
register
Archaic and onomastic; the obscure liáo reading is dialect-rare. You meet in names and old texts, not modern speech.

Components

radical
jade (side form)
The left side is the jade radical: standalone loses its dot to -shape on the left. It marks as a kind of precious stone.
phonetic
ruì
wise; deep (phonetic)
On the right, a slightly contracted supplies the sound of this older form; its old reading gives the xuán pronunciation shared with the modern variant .

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Stroke Order

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