轩辕

軒轅
xuānyuán
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Meanings

  1. 1 Xuanyuan, personal name of the Yellow Emperor (Huangdi)
  2. 2 two-character surname Xuanyuan

Examples

Xuānyuán Huángdì shì Zhōnghuá Mínzú de rénwén shǐzǔ.
Xuanyuan, the Yellow Emperor, is regarded as the ancestral founder of Chinese civilization.
Shǎnxī Huánglíng Xiàn yǒu Xuānyuán Miào.
There is a Xuanyuan Temple in Huangling County, Shaanxi.

Tips

history
黄帝 (Yellow Emperor) is one of the legendary 三皇五帝 (Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors) and a mythological cultural progenitor of the Han Chinese. Han people are often called 炎黄子孙 ('descendants of Yan and Huang').
culture
Also the name of a popular video-game and TV-drama franchise 轩辕 ('Xuanyuan Sword'), running since 1990 — a cornerstone of Taiwanese-Chinese fantasy RPGs.

Stroke Order

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