仙
Meanings
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- 1.immortal
- 1.variant of 仙[xiān]
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Wiktionary
- 1.xian (an immortal; celestial being)
- 2.extraordinary person
- 3.expert; a title for a person with a specific expertise
- 4.person with some specific hobby or addiction
- 5.a euphemism for the deceased
- 6.Classifier for deity, idol, statue, doll. alternative form of 身 (sian)
- 7.(with negative) whatsoever, any way
- 8.a surname
- 9.cent (Classifier: 個／个 c)
- 10.senior
- 11.to berate a junior
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sen): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 山 (OC *sreːn, “mountain”) — a person moving into a mountain to practise becoming immortal. Originally 僊. The current form is first attested in the clerical script of the Han dynasty. A relatively late word, perhaps Sino-Tibetan (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Tibetan གཤེན (gshen, “shaman”), as in Tibetan གཤེན་རབ (gshen rab, “Shenrab”), the founder of the Tibetan religion Bon, although this might be a loan from Chinese (ibid.). Starostin sets up Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s[ă]n (“a kind of demon”), comparing it to Tibetan བསེན་མོ (bsen mo, “female devil”) and Jingpho sawn (“malignant female nat”). Note also, along similar lines, Burmese စုန်း (cun:, “witch”).
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