Translingual

Han character

禅 (radical 113 示+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 戈火金田十 (IFCWJ), composition ⿰礻单)

1. meditation, contemplation; "Zen".

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 844, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24787
• Dae Jaweon: page 1265, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2402, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7985

Chinese

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 禪)

Readings

• Goon: ぜん (zen)
• Kan’on: (rare) せん (sen)
• Kun: (rare) ゆずる (yuzuru), (rare) しずか (shizuka)

Compounds

Etymology

Shortened from 禅那 ‎(zenna, “Zen meditation practice”), from Middle Chinese 禅那 ‎(chánnà), from Sanskrit ध्यान ‎(dhyāna, “a type of meditation”); compare Pali झान ‎(jhāna).

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Goon
• (Tokyo) ぜ​ん [zéꜜǹ] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1]
• (Tokyo) ぜん [zèń] (Heiban - [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [zẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

禅 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 禪, hiragana ぜん, romaji Zen)

1. Zen Buddhism

Synonyms

• 禅宗 (ぜんしゅう) ‎(Zenshū): the Zen sect of Buddhism

References

1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

禅 • ‎(seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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