仙 xiān
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 山 mountain, hill, peak
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
仙女
xiānnǚ
fairy; goddess
Characters in this word
女 nǚ
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 女 — woman, girl
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 村里的传说把那座山描绘成仙女下凡沐浴的地方。 Cūn lǐ de chuánshuō bǎ nà zuò shān miáohuì chéng xiānnǚ xiàfán mùyù de dìfang. The village legend depicts that mountain as a place where a fairy descended to bathe.
- 孩子们相信月亮上住着一位美丽的仙女。 Háizimen xiāngxìn yuèliang shàng zhùzhe yī wèi měilì de xiānnǚ. The children believe a beautiful fairy lives on the moon.
- 传说七夕那天，仙女会下凡与人间相会。 Chuánshuō qīxī nà tiān, xiānnǚ huì xiàfán yǔ rénjiān xiāng huì. Legend says that on the day of Qixi, fairies descend to the mortal world to meet people.