Chinese symbol for “fairy”
仙女
xiān nǚ
fairy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fairy is 仙女 (xiān nǚ), defined as: fairy.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “fairy”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 仙子 | xiān zǐ | fairy |
| 精灵 (精靈) | jīng líng | spirit; fairy |
| 天仙 | tiān xiān | immortal (esp. female); deity |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 仙女.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 神仙 | shén xiān | Daoist immortal; supernatural entity |
| 仙子 | xiān zǐ | fairy |
| 仙人 | xiān rén | Daoist immortal; celestial being |
| 仙境 | xiān jìng | fairyland; wonderland |
| 仙桃 | xiān táo | the peaches of immortality of Goddess Xi Wangmu 西王母 |
| 女人 | nǚ rén | woman |
| 女性 | nǚ xìng | woman; the female sex |
| 女儿 (女兒) | nǚ ér | daughter |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fairy”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.