玄 玄 xuan2
black; mysterious

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radical
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白顶玄鸥 白頂玄鷗 bai2 ding3 xuan2 ou1
(bird species of China) brown noddy (Anous stolidus)

白玄鸥 白玄鷗 bai2 xuan2 ou1
(bird species of China) white tern (Gygis alba)

房玄龄 房玄齡 fang2 xuan2 ling2
Fang Xuanling (579-648), Tang dynasty historian, compiler of History of Jin dynasty 晉書|晋书

故弄玄虚 故弄玄虛 gu4 nong4 xuan2 xu1
deliberately mystifying; to make sth unnecessarily complicated

桓玄 桓玄 huan2 xuan2
Huan Xuan (369-404), general involved in the break-up of Eastern Jin

九天玄女 九天玄女 jiu3 tian1 xuan2 nv3
Xuan Nü, a fairy in Chinese mythology

唐玄宗 唐玄宗 tang2 xuan2 zong1
Tang Emperor Xuanzong (685-762), also known as Emperor Ming of Tang 唐明皇, reign name of seventh Tang emperor 李隆基, reigned 712-756

天地玄黄 天地玄黃 tian1 di4 xuan2 huang2
first line of the Thousand Character Classic 千字文

玄奥 玄奧 xuan2 ao4
abstruse; profound mystery; the mysteries of the universe

玄关 玄關 xuan2 guan1
entrance hall; front door; porch; vestibule

玄乎 玄乎 xuan2 hu1
unreliable; incredible

玄狐 玄狐 xuan2 hu2
silver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus)

玄机 玄機 xuan2 ji1
profound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism); mysterious principles

玄理 玄理 xuan2 li3
profound theory; philosophical theory of Wei and Jin 玄學|玄学 sect

玄米茶 玄米茶 xuan2 mi3 cha2
genmaicha; Japanese tea with added roasted brown rice

玄秘 玄秘 xuan2 mi4
mystery; mysterious; occult; abstruse doctrine (e.g. religious)

玄妙 玄妙 xuan2 miao4
mysterious; profound; abstruse

玄圃 玄圃 xuan2 pu3
mythical fairyland on Kunlun Mountain 崑崙|昆仑

玄青 玄青 xuan2 qing1
deep black

玄参 玄參 xuan2 shen1
Ningpo figwort (Scrophularia ningpoensis); root of Ningpo figwort (used in TCM)

玄石 玄石 xuan2 shi2
magnetite Fe3O4

玄孙 玄孫 xuan2 sun1
great-great-grandson

玄菟郡 玄菟郡 xuan2 tu4 jun4
Xuantu commandery (108 BC-c. 300 AD), one of four Han dynasty commanderies in north Korea

玄武 玄武 xuan2 wu3
Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky); (in Daoism) God of the north sky

玄武门之变 玄武門之變 xuan2 wu3 men2 zhi1 bian4
Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗

玄武区 玄武區 xuan2 wu3 qu1
Xuanwu (Black tortoise) district of Nanjing City 南京市 in Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏

玄武岩 玄武岩 xuan2 wu3 yan2
basalt (geology); lava

玄武质熔岩 玄武質熔岩 xuan2 wu3 zhi4 rong2 yan2
basalt; also written 玄熔岩

玄虚 玄虛 xuan2 xu1
deceitful trick; mystery; unfathomable

玄学 玄學 xuan2 xue2
Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals; translation of metaphysics (also translated 形而上學|形而上学)

玄远 玄遠 xuan2 yuan3
profound; abstruse mystery

玄奘 玄奘 xuan2 zang4
Xuanzang (602-664) Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator, who traveled to India 629-645

玄之又玄 玄之又玄 xuan2 zhi1 you4 xuan2
mystery within a mystery; the mysteries of the Dao according to Laozi 老子

渊玄 淵玄 yuan1 xuan2
profundity; depth

枕状玄武岩 枕狀玄武岩 zhen3 zhuang4 xuan2 wu3 yan2
pillow lava (geology); pillow basalt

郑玄 鄭玄 zheng4 xuan2
Zheng Xuan (127-200), late Han scholar