鲜
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fresh; bright (in color); delicious; tasty; delicacy; aquatic foods
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 魚 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 鮮
- Common rank
- #1,017
- Unicode
- U+9C9C
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 鲜
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国 | People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) | |
| 长白朝鲜族自治县 | Changbai Korean Autonomous County, in Baishan City 白山市[Bai2 shan1 Shi4], Jilin | |
| 数见不鲜 | a common occurrence (idiom) | |
| 地三鲜 | dish consisting of stir-fried potato, eggplant and green pepper | |
| 鲜为人知 | rarely known to anyone (idiom); almost unknown; secret to all but a few | |
| 延边朝鲜族自治州 | Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, in Jilin Province 吉林省[Ji2 lin2 Sheng3] | |
| 朝鲜日报 | Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper | |
| 朝鲜八道 | the eight provinces of Yi dynasty Korea | |
| 鲜明个性 | individuality; clear-cut personality | |
| 鲜活货物 | live cargo | |
| 小鲜肉 | (coll.) teen idol (male) | |
| 朝鲜人 | a North Korean; (in broader or historical usage) a Korean | |
| 朝鲜字母 | hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters | |
| 朝鲜文 | Korean written language | |
| 朝鲜半岛 | Korean Peninsula | |
| 南朝鲜 | South Korea | |
| 朝鲜语 | Korean language | |
| 保鲜期 | shelf life; freshness date | |
| 朝鲜劳动党 | Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea | |
| 朝鲜族 | Korean ethnic group; Koreans (major ethnic group of the Korean Peninsula); Korean ethnic m… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 羊 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 羊 sound part | sheep, goat | |
| 洋 | sea, ocean; western, foreign | |
| 养 | to raise, to rear, to bring up; to support | |
| 样 | form, pattern, shape, style | |
| 氧 | oxygen | |
| 祥 | happiness, good fortune; auspicious | |
| 痒 | to itch; to tickle | |
| 详 | complete, detailed, thorough | |
| 翔 | to soar, to hover, to glide | |
| 羌 | Qiang nationality; surname | |
| 恙 | illness, sickness; indisposition | |
| 羟 | hydroxide | |
| 佯 | to pretend, to feign; false, deceitful | |
| 徉 | to wander, to stray, to roam; to hesitate | |
| 烊 | to smelt; to close for the night | |
| 庠 | village school; teach | |
| 羰 | carbonyl group | |
| 蛘 | rice weevil |