轩辕

軒轅

Xuānyuán

proper noun #72,047

Meanings

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

Characters

high carriage; pavilion

shafts of a cart

Examples

HSK 7-9

轩辕黄帝是中华民族的人文始祖。

Xuānyuán Huángdì shì Zhōnghuá mínzú de rénwén shǐzǔ.

Xuanyuan, the Yellow Emperor, is regarded as the ancestral founder of Chinese civilization.

HSK 7-9

陕西黄陵县有轩辕庙。

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 轩辕剑 ('Xuanyuan Sword'), running since 1990, a cornerstone of Taiwanese-Chinese fantasy RPGs.

Stroke Order

轩 xuān

辕 yuán