贤 meaning and pronunciation

贤
Simplified character
賢
Traditional character

贤 English definition

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

HSK levels

Characters with the same pronunciation

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

Words containing 贤, by HSK level

衔 宪