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仙俠

简仙侠 · 繁仙俠

Mandarin · pinyin xiān xiá

(fiction genre) xianxia; Chinese fantasy featuring immortals, spiritual cultivation 修仙 xiū xiān, and other supernatural elements

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仙: xiān · Taoist super-being, transcendent, immortal
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侠: xiá · chivalrous person; knight-errant

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1–2 · xian1 xia2

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noun

xianxia (a genre of East Asian fiction similar to wuxia but with more mythological elements)

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