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Kanji Detail for 玄 - "profound, mysterious, deep"

  • Meaning

    玄 means "profound, mysterious, deep."

    1. Black - A dark color; reddish-black; dark.

    2. Profound - Deep; mysterious.

    3. Distant - Faint and far; remote.

    4. Heaven - The color of the sky.

    5. North - The northern direction.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    mysterious; occultness; black; deep; profound

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    deep, profound, abstruse; Kangxi radical 95

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    black; mysterious

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    deep, profound, abstruse

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Black color. Black without luster is colloquially called 玄色. | Deep and profound principles are called 玄. The world also calls Daoist studies 玄學. | A great-grandson's son is called 玄孫 (great-great-grandson). Seen in (Erya). | [Character analysis] During Qing to avoid the taboo name of Emperor Shengzu Xuanye, it was abbreviated as 玄 or written as 元.
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