仙
/ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•xian (an immortal; celestial being) · extraordinary person · expert; a title for a person with a specific expertise
Etimoloji
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sen): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 山 (OC *sreːn, “mountain”) — a person moving into a mountain to practise becoming immortal. Originally 僊. The current form is first attested in the clerical script of the Han dynasty. A relatively late word, perhaps Sino-Tibetan (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Tibetan གཤེན (gshen, “shaman”),…