咸
xián HSK4

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咸 鹹 xián frequency
salty adjective
salty; having the taste of salt

汗水为什么是咸的？

hàn​shuǐ wèi​shén​me shì xián de?

Why is sweat salty?

saltiness noun
saltiness; the salty taste of the five flavors (sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty)
stingy
(colloquial) stingy; miserly; mean with money
Xian (historical place)
a historical locality in the State of Wei during the Spring and Autumn period, located in modern-day Puyang County, Henan
咸 xián
all
(literary) all; everyone; synonymous with 全 quán or 都 dōu
Xian (surname)
the surname Xian
Xian hexagram
the 31st hexagram of the I Ching, representing influence or mutual attraction
universal
(literary) widespread; universal; prevalent
harmonious
(literary) harmonious; in concord

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,525th most common 18.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,738th most common 5.64 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.43 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
14.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
鹹
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+54B8

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)