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Hi guys. 

I was creating a character based on the Eight Immortals (八仙) and want to name him The Ninth Immortal.

I went to Google and the give me this 第九個不朽.
Since it looks nothing like the original, I searched on internet and end up with something like this 第九仙人.

Is this correct? Is ther some way to write "The Ninth Immortal" in a mor elegant form?

Thanks.

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The character for immortal contains an element meaning "person" on the right and another with the meaning "mountain" on the left [edit: got my left and right wrong way round here!], perhaps there to suggest eternal endurance. There's a Chinese set phrase 山外有山 "beyond the mountains, more mountains"  (roughly, you/this might seem great but there's always someone/something more/better) so maybe a visually punning 仙外有仙, the immortal beyond the immortals.

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