| 玄 | 836B55 60.93 | 部居  | 畫數 5 | ㄒㄩㄢˊ [xUan2] | ||
| N. | (1) A surname. (2) The (Taoist) mysteries: 談玄 discuss Taoist mysticism. | |||||
| Adj. | (1) Dark, black: 玄服 black gown; 玄圭，玄玉 black jade; 玄狐 black fox. (2) (Taoist) mystic: see 玄學，玄門，玄根，玄牝 [xUan2xUe2], [xUan2men2], [xUan2gen1], [xUan2pin4]↓; (Budd.) 玄關 the path to right doctrine; 玄軌 (Budd.) the mysterious way. (3) Abstruse, mysterious, subtle, profound: 這話說的太玄了 this talk is getting too abstruse, mysterious; 玄奧，玄妙 [xUan2ao4], [xUan2miao4]↓; 玄理，玄旨 mystic truth; 玄德 the concealed, profound virtues; 玄策，玄略，玄謀 subtle, profound strategy; 玄談 abstruse talk; 玄虛 [xUan2xU1],↓. | |||||
| Words | 1. 玄奧 [xUan2ao4], (1) adj., abstruse, difficult to comprehend; (2) n., mystery, profundity. 2. 玄裳 [xUan2chang2], n., (AC) black dress of mourning. 3. 玄青 [xUan2qing1], adj., deep black color. 4. 玄穹 [xUan2qiong1], n., (AC) the profound vastness beyond the skies. 5. 玄根 [xUan2gen1], n., (1) (Taoist) the mysterious root of all things; (2) (Budd.) person's endowment at birth. 6. 玄宮 [xUan2gong1], n., (1) (AC) (Taoist) the hall of profound meditations; (2) (AC) the inner palaces. 7. 玄鶴 [xUan2he4], n., (zoo.) the black crane, Grus cinerea. 8. 玄黃 [xUan2huang2], n., (LL) heaven (玄 black) and earth (黃 yellow): 玄黃未判 before the heaven and earth were separated or before creation; 天地玄黃 first sentence in 千字文 sometimes used as index words (like A, B, C, D). 9. 玄機 [xUan2ji1], n., (Taoist) the mysteries of the universe; in pop. Taoism, the mysterious workings of fate. 10. 玄教 [xUan2jiao4], n., Taoism. 11. 玄津 [xUan2jin1], n., (Budd.) the ferry to salvation. 12. 玄籍 [xUan2ji2], n., (Budd.) the sutras. 13. 玄覽 [xUan2lan3], phr., (Laotse) observe all universe with a quiet meditative mind. 14. 玄理 [xUan2li3], n., the mystic truth. 15. 玄流 [xUan2liu2], n., (Budd.) the monks and nuns (in black, or grey robes). 16. 玄門 [xUan2men2], n., (1) (Budd.) the Buddhist truth or doctrines; vestibule; (2) Taoism; Taoist church. 17. 玄妙 [xUan2miao4], adj., mysterious, subtle, profound: 玄妙莫測 difficult to guess or comprehend 18. 玄默 [xUan2mo4], adj., silent, reticent (associated with calm and meditation). 19. 玄鳥 [xUan2niao3], n., poetic name for the swallow. 20. 玄女 [xUan2nU3], n., (Chin. mythology) a goddess who assisted the Yellow Emperor (黃帝) to subdue 蚩尤 (also styled 九天玄女). 21. 玄牝 [xUan2pin4], n., (Laotse) the Mysterious Mother of things in universe. 22. 玄圃 [xUan2pu3], n., a mythical fairyland on 崑崙 Kunlun Mountain. 23. 玄塞 [xUan2sai4], n., (LL) the Great Wall. 24. 玄參 [xUan2shen1], n., (bot.) a species of black jinseng, Scrophularia oldhami (also called 黑參). 25. 玄象 [xUan2xiang4], n., meteorological phenomena. 26. 玄室 [xUan2shi4], n., (1) (LL) mausoleum; (2) (LL) a dark room. 27. 玄石 [xUan2shi2], n., loadstone, magnetic stone. 28. 玄虛 [xUan2xU1], (1) adj., abstruse, mystical; (2) n., 故弄玄虛 play tricks, make things look unnecessarily mysterious. 29. 玄學 [xUan2xUe2], n., (1) metaphysics; (2) mysticism; (3) Taoism; (4) Buddhism. 30. 玄孫 [xUan2sun1], n., great-great-grandson, cf. 曾孫 great-grandson. 31. 玄談 [xUan2tan2], n., abstruse, mystic talk; Buddhist or Taoist discussion. 32. 玄堂 [xUan2tang2], n., (1) (AC) a northern room; (2) (in Tang Dyn.) a mausoleum. 33. 玄天 [xUan2tian1], n., the Northern Sky: 玄天上帝 (Taoist) God of Northern Heavens. 34. 玄宗 [xUan2zong1], n., a gen. term for Buddhist church. 35. 玄悟 [xUan2wu4], v.t. have mystic insight. 36. 玄武 [xUan2wu3], n., (1) the seven constellations of northern sky (斗，牛，女，虛，危，室，壁); (2) (Taoism) spirit of Northern Sky: 玄武大帝 (also 真武大帝) also interpreted as Spirit of Water. 37. 玄武岩 [xUan2wu3yan2] n., (min.) black basalt. | |||||