An immortal; human souls endued with divine powers; beings of benign nature, inferior to gods, and having the power of becoming invisible; fairies; an old recluse who changes into another form but does not die; to become immortal; deathless; anything puzzling or curious; graceful.
sien ko;
a fairy, or elf.
sien bô̤;
an old female fairy.
sien ong;
an old male fairy.
sien thông;
youthful genii.
sien ńng;
an immortal, feminine and middle aged.
sien-nâng;
the elfin folk.
sêng cò̤ sien;
become an immortal.
sài kùe sien-kéng;
more wonderful than fairyland.
siu līen kàu sêng sien;
endure affliction till immortality is attained thereby.
sien-kut;
lithe; lissome; fairylike.
pue sîen;
seraphs; genii who have great powers.
thien sien;
angels.
tī sien;
immortals living among men.
hŏng-sien-hue;
the touch-me-not flower.
poih sien;
the eight genii, deified mortals, regarded now as the patrons of art.
hó̤ kùe sien-tang;
sweeter than nectar.
sien-ke kâi bĭo îeh;
a mystic remedy from the genii; a draught giving immortality.
sien hut;
a long besom of horsehair, used to drive mosquitoes away.