The phrase "a hsien" is not correct in written English and appears to be a misspelling or misinterpretation.
Without context, it's unclear when it could be used, but it may refer to a term from another language or culture.
Example: "In the story, the protagonist encounters a hsien who offers guidance."
Alternatives: "a sage" or "a spirit".
Tseng Hsien Ying, a spokesperson for the coalition, told VICE that it isn't against same-sex marriage — Taiwan just isn't ready for the change.
As part of a hazing ritual two years ago, Chun Hsien "Michael Dengg was ordered to cross an icy expanse while blindfolded and carrying a heavy backpack.
A police commissioner known as "hsien wei" was entrusted with law enforcement and had the authority to arrest suspects.
The dry pomace was then ground using a Hsiangtai electric grinder (Taipei Hsien, Taiwan) to provide more surface area for the reaction.
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, also called Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove, Pinyin romanization Zhulinqixian, Wade-Giles romanization Chu-lin ch'i-hsien, a group of Chinese scholars and poets of the mid-3rd century ad who banded together to escape from the hypocrisy and danger of the political world of government officialdom to a life of drinking wine and writing verse in the country.
He described Hao Shao-wen as being a persuasive speaker, Tsai Chang-hsien as being a very good prankster, and Ao-chuan as self-confident.
An example of this was given by Judicial Commissioner Menon in Lee Hsien Loong: "[W]here what appears to raise a question of international law in fact bears on the application of domestic law, that is something the court may well find justiciable".
Or "Flight of the Red Balloon," a tenderly expressive film about childhood and its end from the Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, an artist whose camera soars even as his worldview remains grounded in real life.
There is nothing risky about these roles, but that isn't to say Binoche has abandoned the career thrill-seeking that led her to work alongside the likes of Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao- Hsien (and turn down Steven Spielberg); she has merely found a new outlet.
This weeklong survey of his work includes those four titles, as well as his 1998 collaboration with the director André Techiné, "Alice and Martin" (Sunday and Monday), and his superb documentary "HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-hsien" (Saturday and Monday), a 1997 study of that great Taiwanese filmmaker.
