茜
xīqiàn

madder

茜 xī frequency
name transliteration proper name
used in the transliteration of people's names

茜茜公主是奥地利的皇后。

xī xī gōng​zhǔ shì ào​dì​lì de huáng​hòu.

Princess Sissi was the Empress of Austria.

茜 qiàn
Indian madder noun
a herbaceous climbing plant (Rubia cordifolia) whose roots are used to produce red dye

茜草的根部可以提取出天然的红色染料。

qiàn cǎo de gēn​bù kě​yǐ tí​qǔ chū tiān​rán de hóng​sè rǎn​liào.

Natural red dye can be extracted from the roots of madder.

madder red noun
a deep red or alizarin crimson color

这件绸缎呈现出深沉且优雅的茜色。

zhè jiàn chóu​duàn chéng​xiàn chū shēn​chén qiě yōu​yǎ de qiàn sè.

This silk presents a deep and elegant madder red color.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,097th most common 8.66 per million
Movie subtitles
1,811th most common 26.8 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.17 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
4.96 per million

Details
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+831C

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