咸 (xián): meaning and stroke order
咸 (xián) means all, everyone, each, widespread, harmonious, salted, salty, stingy, miserly, surname Xian.
咸
- Simplified
- 咸
- Traditional
- 咸, 鹹
- Pinyin
- xián
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Stroke order of 咸
咸
- Xián surname Xian
- xián all; everyone
- xián salted; salty
- 9 strokes
- Traditional form: 鹹
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Meaning of 咸
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xián
- all
- everyone
- each
- widespread
- harmonious
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xián
Traditional 鹹
- salted
- salty
- stingy
- miserly
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Xián
- surname Xian
Radical and structure
- 咸
- Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 9 strokes · built from 戊 and 𠮛
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.
咸 in our stories
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一位美食作家在网上写了一篇文章，说他的菜越来越咸，服务也越来越差。
yí wèi měishí zuòjiā zài wǎngshang xiě le yì piān wénzhāng shuō tā de cài yuèláiyuè xián fúwù yě yuèláiyuè chà
A food writer published an article online saying his dishes were getting saltier and the service worse.
From the story A second chance HSK 5
Stories using 咸
- A second chance HSK 5
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).