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HSK
entrance hall; vestibule
profound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism) / mysterious principles
HSK 7-9
Tang Emperor Xuanzong (685-762), also known as Emperor Ming of Tang 唐明皇, reign name of seventh Tang emperor 李隆基, reigned 712-756
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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black / mysterious
HSK 7-9
deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated
Xuanzang (602-664), Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator who traveled to India 629-645
first line of the Thousand Character Classic 千字文
xuanhuan, a fusion of Western and Eastern fantasy (subgenre of Chinese fantasy fiction)
Huan Xuan (369-404), general involved in the break-up of Eastern Jin
Ningpo figwort (Scrophularia ningpoensis) / root of Ningpo figwort (used in TCM)
silver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus)
Xuantu commandery (108 BC-c. 300 AD), one of four Han dynasty commanderies in north Korea
Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky) / (in Daoism) God of the north sky
great-great-grandson
mystery / mysterious / occult / abstruse doctrine (e.g. religious)
(geology) basalt
Zheng Xuan (127-200), late Han scholar
unreliable; incredible
Fang Xuanling (579-648), Tang dynasty historian, compiler of History of Jin dynasty 晉書|晋书
Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals / translation of metaphysics (also translated 形而上學|形而上学)
magnetite Fe3O4
mysterious / profound / abstruse
basalt / also written 玄熔岩
Xuanwu (Black tortoise) district of Nanjing City 南京市 in Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏
genmaicha / Japanese tea with added roasted brown rice
profound theory / philosophical theory of Wei and Jin 玄學|玄学 sect
profound / abstruse mystery
profundity / depth
Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗
abstruse / profound mystery / the mysteries of the universe
Zhao Xuantan, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk tradition and Taoism
mythical fairyland on Kunlun Mountain 崑崙|昆仑
(intentionally) mysterious; arcane
black (without gloss) / black with a hint of red in it
deep black
Xuan Nü, a fairy in Chinese mythology
(bird species of China) brown noddy (Anous stolidus)
mystery within a mystery / the mysteries of the Dao according to Laozi 老子
(bird species of China) white tern (Gygis alba)


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