bàn​xiān

half-immortal

  • created sense approved 半仙 · bàn​xiān · half-immortal — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    半仙

    bàn​xiān

    half-immortal

    a person who claims to have high spiritual power or the ability to communicate with spirits, such as a fortune-teller or a traditional healer

    半 (literal) → 半 · bàn · partly 仙 (literal) → 仙 · xiān · immortal

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  • created sense approved 半仙 · bàn​xiān · high-climber — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    半仙

    bàn​xiān

    high-climber

    (literary) a person who climbs to a very high elevation, metaphorically reaching halfway to the immortals in the sky

    半 (literal) → 半 · bàn · partly 仙 (literal) → 仙 · xiān · immortal

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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