显 (xiǎn): meaning and stroke order
显 (xiǎn) means to make visible, to reveal, prominent, conspicuous, (prefix) phanero-.
显
- Simplified
- 显
- Traditional
- 顯
- Pinyin
- xiǎn
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Stroke order of 显
显
- xiǎn to make visible; to reveal
- 9 strokes
- Traditional form: 顯
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Meaning of 显
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xiǎn
Traditional 顯
- to make visible
- to reveal
- prominent
- conspicuous
- (prefix) phanero-
Radical and structure
- 显
- Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 9 strokes · 日 on top, 业 below
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Words with 显
- 明显 míng xiǎn clear; distinct
- 显然 xiǎn rán clearly; evidently; obviously
- 显示 xiǎn shì to show; to illustrate
- 显著 xiǎn zhù outstanding; notable
显 in our stories
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她想起老师傅说过的一个古老方法：用米汤写字，干了以后什么也看不见，只有刷上碘酒，字才会显出来。
tā xiǎng qǐ lǎo shīfu shuō guò de yí gè gǔlǎo fāngfǎ yòng mǐtāng xiě zì gān le yǐhòu shénme yě kàn bú jiàn zhǐyǒu shuā shàng diǎnjiǔ zì cái huì xiǎn chūlai
She remembered an old method her teacher had described: words written in rice water become invisible when they dry, and only appear when brushed with iodine.
From the story Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Stories using 显
- Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7
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).