DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

九天仙女

Mandarin · pinyin jiǔ tiān xiān nǚ

(idiom) celestial maiden of the highest heavens; (fig.) woman of extraordinary beauty

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

九: jiǔ · nine
天: tiān · sky, heaven; god, celestial
仙: xiān · Taoist super-being, transcendent, immortal
女: nǚ · woman, girl; feminine; Kangxi radical 38; 10th lunar mansion, determinative star ε Aquarii (Albali)

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

3–1–1–3 · jiu3 tian1 xian1 nu:3

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

九天仙女 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗