鲜
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fresh; bright (in color); delicious; tasty; delicacy; aquatic foods
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Dict coverage rank #1,018 U+9C9C
How 鲜 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
鱼 (semantic, “fish”) + 羊 (phonetic, yáng)
How to remember it
fresh · Heisig RSH #531
鱼 fish + 羊 sheep
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 羊
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 羊 (yáng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 羊 sound component | yáng | sheep, goat |
| 洋 | yáng | sea, ocean; western, foreign |
| 养 | yǎng | to raise, to rear, to bring up; to support |
| 样 | yàng | form, pattern, shape, style |
| 氧 | yǎng | oxygen |
| 祥 | xiáng | happiness, good fortune; auspicious |
| 痒 | yǎng | to itch; to tickle |
| 详 | xiáng | complete, detailed, thorough |
| 翔 | xiáng | to soar, to hover, to glide |
| 羌 | qiāng | Qiang nationality; surname |
| 恙 | yàng | illness, sickness; indisposition |
| 羟 | qiǎng | hydroxide |
| 佯 | yáng | to pretend, to feign; false, deceitful |
| 徉 | yáng | to wander, to stray, to roam; to hesitate |
| 烊 | yáng | to smelt; to close for the night |
| 庠 | xiáng | village school; teach |
| 羰 | tāng | carbonyl group |
| 蛘 | yáng | rice weevil |
Words containing 鲜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国 | Cháo xiǎn Mín zhǔ zhǔ yì Rén mín Gòng hé guó | People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) |
| 长白朝鲜族自治县 | Cháng bái Cháo xiǎn zú Zì zhì xiàn | Changbai Korean Autonomous County, in Baishan City 白山市[Bai2 shan1 Shi4], Jilin |
| 数见不鲜 | shuò jiàn bù xiān | a common occurrence (idiom) |
| 地三鲜 | dì sān xiān | dish consisting of stir-fried potato, eggplant and green pepper |
| 鲜为人知 | xiǎn wéi rén zhī | rarely known to anyone (idiom); almost unknown; secret to all but a few |
| 延边朝鲜族自治州 | Yán biān Cháo xiǎn zú Zì zhì zhōu | Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, in Jilin Province 吉林省[Ji2 lin2 Sheng3] |
| 朝鲜日报 | Cháo xiǎn Rì bào | Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper |
| 朝鲜八道 | Cháo xiǎn bā dào | the eight provinces of Yi dynasty Korea |
| 鲜明个性 | xiān míng gè xìng | individuality; clear-cut personality |
| 鲜活货物 | xiān huó huò wù | live cargo |
| 小鲜肉 | xiǎo xiān ròu | (coll.) teen idol (male) |
| 朝鲜人 | Cháo xiǎn rén | a North Korean; (in broader or historical usage) a Korean |
| 朝鲜字母 | Cháo xiǎn zì mǔ | hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters |
| 朝鲜文 | Cháo xiǎn wén | Korean written language |
| 朝鲜半岛 | Cháo xiǎn Bàn dǎo | Korean Peninsula |
| 南朝鲜 | Nán Cháo xiǎn | South Korea |
| 朝鲜语 | Cháo xiǎn yǔ | Korean language |
| 保鲜期 | bǎo xiān qī | shelf life; freshness date |
| 朝鲜劳动党 | Cháo xiǎn Láo dòng dǎng | Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea |
| 朝鲜族 | Cháo xiǎn zú | Korean ethnic group; Koreans (major ethnic group of the Korean Peninsula); Korean ethnic m… |