现

now; to appear

No. 51 most used · 0.28% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 361.

How it's built

• 王king, jade
• 见seeGives the sound: jiàn

A way to remember it

See (见) the jade (王) shine: there it is, now.

Words

• 现在

  xiàn zài

  now; at present; currently
• 发现

  fā xiàn

  to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect; a discovery
• 出现

  chū xiàn

  to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up
• 表现

  biǎo xiàn

  to show; to show off; to display
• 现场

  xiàn chǎng

  the scene (of a crime, accident etc); (on) the spot; (at) the site
• 现实

  xiàn shí

  reality; actuality; real; actual; realistic; pragmatic; materialistic; self-interested

Sentences

• 你应该现在就回家。

  nǐ yīng gāi xiàn zài jiù huí jiā

  You should go home now.
• 你现在可以开始了。

  nǐ xiàn zài kě yǐ kāi shǐ le

  You can start right now.
• 现代的人想法不同。

  xiàn dài de rén xiǎng fǎ bù tóng

  People today think differently.
• 现在我有很多现金。

  xiàn zài wǒ yǒu hěn duō xiàn jīn

  I have a lot of money on me now.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.