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玄
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Definitions
- 1. black
- 2. mysterious
Words Containing 玄
Xuan Nü, a fairy in Chinese mythology
Xuantu commandery (108 BC-c. 300 AD), one of four Han dynasty commanderies in north Korea
magnetite Fe3O4
Xuanzang (602-664), Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator who traveled to India 629-645
basalt
basalt (geology)
pillow lava (geology)
Fang Xuanling (579-648), Tang dynasty historian, compiler of History of Jin dynasty 晉書|晋书[jìn shū]
(intentionally) mysterious; arcane
deep black
unreliable; incredible
Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky)
(bird species of China) white tern (Gygis alba)
black (without gloss)
great-great-grandson
Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals
(bird species of China) brown noddy (Anous stolidus)
silver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus)
xuanhuan, a fusion of Western and Eastern fantasy (subgenre of Chinese fantasy fiction)
first line of the Thousand Character Classic 千字文[qiān zì wén]
mysterious
deliberately mystifying
entrance hall
abstruse
mystery
genmaicha
Ningpo figwort (Scrophularia ningpoensis)
Zhao Xuantan, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk tradition and Taoism
Zheng Xuan (127-200), late Han scholar
mystery within a mystery
profound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism)
Xuanwu (Black tortoise) district of Nanjing City 南京市 in Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏
profundity
mythical fairyland on Kunlun Mountain 崑崙|昆仑[kūn lún]
Huan Xuan (369-404), general involved in the break-up of Eastern Jin
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
profound theory
profound
Tang Emperor Xuanzong (685-762), also known as Emperor Ming of Tang 唐明皇[táng míng huáng], reign name of seventh Tang emperor 李隆基[lǐ lōng jī], reigned 712-756