显
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to make visible; to reveal; prominent; conspicuous; (prefix) phanero-
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 日 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 顯
- Common rank
- #838
- Unicode
- U+663E
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 显
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不显山不露水 | lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key fa… | |
| 大显神通 | to display one's remarkable skill or prowess; to give full play to one's brilliant abiliti… | |
| 大显身手 | (idiom) fully displaying one's capabilities | |
| 外显子 | (genetics) an exon | |
| 外显性 | (genetics) penetrance | |
| 显生代 | Phanerozoic, geological eon lasting since the Cambrian 寒武紀|寒武纪[Han2 wu3 ji4], c. 540m year… | |
| 集成显卡 | integrated GPU (abbr. to 集顯|集显[ji2 xian3]) | |
| 显山露水 | to reveal one's talent (idiom) | |
| 主显节 | (Christianity) Epiphany | |
| 电子显微镜 | electron microscope | |
| 光学显微镜 | optical microscope | |
| 八仙过海，各显神通 | lit. the Eight Immortals cross the sea, each showing his own special talent (idiom); fig. … | |
| 深入显出 | see 深入淺出|深入浅出[shen1 ru4 qian3 chu1] | |
| 经丝彩色显花 | warp brocade; woven fabric with single woof but colored warp | |
| 显性基因 | dominant gene | |
| 头显 | HMD; head-mounted display (abbr. for 頭戴式顯示器|头戴式显示器[tou2 dai4 shi4 xian3 shi4 qi4]) | |
| 显学 | famous school; noted school of thought | |
| 显而易见 | clearly and easy to see (idiom); obviously; clearly; it goes without saying | |
| 显微学 | microscopy | |
| 显性 | visible; conspicuous; phanero-; dominant (gene) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 业 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 业 sound part | business, profession; to study, to work | |
| 邺 | a place in Henan province |