贤 meaning and pronunciation

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贤 English definition

xián

  • worthy or virtuous person
  • honorific used for a person of the same or a younger generation

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Characters with the same pronunciation

  • : salted; salty; stingy; miserly;
  • : elegant; refined; to be skilled at;
  • : to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 嫌犯[xian2 fan4], criminal suspect;
  • : bow string; string of musical instrument; watchspring; chord (segment of curve); hypotenuse; CL:根[gen1];
  • : composed, contented;
  • : to pull out (esp. hair or feathers); to pick; to pluck; fig. to extract (lines from a text);
  • : saliva;
  • : epilepsy; insanity;
  • : side of a ship or an aircraft;
  • : millipede;
  • : bit (of a bridle); to hold in the mouth; to harbor (feelings); to link; to accept; rank; title;
  • : to bring into accord; sincerity;
  • : to stay idle; to be unoccupied; not busy; leisure; enclosure;
  • : silver pheasant (Phasianus nycthemerus); silver pheasant badge worn by civil officials of the 5th grade;

Words containing 贤, by HSK level