xuán

  1. xuán adjective profound; mysterious; subtle
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 微妙 (CCD '玄' 2; FE '玄' 3; GHDC '玄' 2)
  2. xuán adjective black
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 黑色; for example, 天地玄黃 'The sky was black and earth yellow.' (CCD '玄' 1; FE '玄' 2; GHDC '玄' 1; QZW)
  3. xuán noun Kangxi radical 95
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
    Notes: Black (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
  4. xuán adjective incredible; unreliable
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '玄' 3)
  5. xuán adjective occult; mystical
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (FE '玄' 1; GHDC '玄' 3)
  6. xuán adjective meditative and silent
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (FE '玄' 4)
  7. xuán adjective pretending
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (FE '玄' 5)
  8. xuán proper noun Xuan
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (FE '玄' 6)
  9. xuán adjective mysterious; subtle
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Japanese: gen (BCSD '玄', p. 819; DJBT '玄', p. 428; SH '玄', p. 194)

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Also contained in

故弄玄虚玄机玄鸟玄微玄武门之变玄狐玄孙欧阳玄九天玄女白玄鸥赵玄坛北帝玄珠玄武玄秘玄虚玄远玄石谈玄說妙傅玄天地玄黄

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 2 Siming's Letters on Ten Issues (Siming Shi Yi Shu) 四明十義書 — count: 103
  • Scroll 1 Passing the Lamp to the Eastern Regions Catalog 東域傳燈目錄 — count: 96
  • Scroll 3 A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 佛祖統紀 — count: 82 , has English translation
  • Scroll 1 Fazhi Yi Bian Guan Xin Er Bai Wen 法智遺編觀心二百問 — count: 55
  • Scroll 8 Collection of records concerning the Chinese Buddhist Canon (Chu San Zang Ji Ji) 出三藏記集 — count: 47
  • Scroll 3 Shi Shi Ji Gu Lue 釋氏稽古略 — count: 46
  • Scroll 3 New Commentary on the Zhao Lun 肇論新疏 — count: 46
  • Scroll 3 Commentary on the Zhao Lun 肇論疏 — count: 45
  • Scroll 4 Ji Gu Jin Fodao Lun Heng 集古今佛道論衡 — count: 45
  • Scroll 6 Song Biographies of Eminent Monks 宋高僧傳 — count: 45 , has English translation

Collocations

  • 沙门玄 (沙門玄) 西明寺沙門玄則製 — The Large Sūtra on Perfection of Wisdom 大般若波羅蜜多經, Scroll 1 — count: 16
  • 玄鉴 (玄鑒) 如來玄鑒 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 44 — count: 7
  • 玄旷 (玄曠) 佛道玄曠 — The Lotus Sutra (Tian Pin Miaofa Lianhua Jing) - alternate translation 添品妙法蓮華經, Scroll 4 — count: 3
  • 守玄 (守玄) 守玄行禪 — Xiuxing Ben Qi Jing 修行本起經, Scroll 1 — count: 3
  • 玄逈 (玄逈) 難逮巍巍玄逈之法 — Daśabhūmikasūtra (Jian Bei Yiqie Zhi De Jing) 漸備一切智德經, Scroll 4 — count: 3
  • 玄邃 (玄邃) 此法玄邃 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 39 — count: 2
  • 幽玄 (幽玄) 其人覩彼志幽玄 — Sutra of the Collection of the Six Perfections (Liu Du Ji Jing) 六度集經, Scroll 7 — count: 2
  • 玄行禅 (玄行禪) 守玄行禪 — Xiuxing Ben Qi Jing 修行本起經, Scroll 1 — count: 2
  • 如来玄 (如來玄) 如來玄鑒 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 44 — count: 2
  • 玄默 (玄默) 心守玄默 — Fa Ju JIng (Dharmapada) 法句經, Scroll 2 — count: 2