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Mythic Mandarin

鲜 (xiān): meaning and stroke order

鲜 (xiān) means fresh, bright (in color), delicious, tasty, delicacy, aquatic foods, fish.

鲜

Simplified
鲜
Traditional
鮮, 鱻, 尟, 尠
Pinyin
xiān · xiǎn

Stroke order of 鲜

鲜

  • xiǎn variant of 鮮|鲜[xian3]
  • xiǎn variant of 尟|鲜[xian3]
  • xiān fresh; bright (in color)
  • 14 strokes
  • Traditional form: 尟

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 鲜

  1. xiān Traditional 鮮
    • fresh
    • bright (in color)
    • delicious
    • tasty
    • delicacy
    • aquatic foods
  2. xiān Traditional 鱻
    • fish
    • old variant of 鮮|鲜[xian1]
  3. xiǎn Traditional 鮮
    • few
    • rare
  4. xiǎn Traditional 尟
    • variant of 鮮|鲜[xian3]
  5. xiǎn Traditional 尠
    • variant of 尟|鲜[xian3]
  6. xiǎn Traditional 鱻
    • old variant of 鮮|鲜[xian3]

Radical and structure

鲜
Radical 鱼 (Kangxi radical 195) in its simplified form · 14 strokes · 鱼 on the left, 羊 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 鲜

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).