賢 — Chinese character
賢
xián
virtuous, worthy; good, able
- Pinyin
- xián
- Radical
- 154 ⾙ (Shell)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 臤 貝
- Formation
- pictophonetic — money; meaning component 貝; sound component 臤
- Simplified
- 贤
- Japanese
- 賢 as a kanji
賢 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 3 · Analects 25 · Art of War 2 · Mencius 74 · Zhuangzi 41 · Great Learning 3 · Doctrine of the Mean 7
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 3
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 75
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 77
- Analects 1.7
- Analects 4.17
- Analects 6.9
- Analects 7.14
- Analects 11.15
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