现

現traditional

#871 by frequency

xiàn

to appear; present; now; existing; current

Examples

烟雾出现了。

Smoke appeared.

我现在在北京。

I am in Beijing right now.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.