禅
Tags
- Jōyō kanji
- Kanji considered of common use by the Japanese Ministry of Education #joyo
- 8th grade kanji
- Kanji learned in eight grade (junior high school) #grade-8
- 13 strokes
- Kanji with 13 strokes #strokes-13
- JLPT N1 kanji
- JLPT N1 kanji: Advanced Level #jlpt1k
Reading
- On'yomi
- ゼンセン
- Kun'yomi
- しずかゆず.る
- Chinese (pinyin)
- shan4chan2
- Korean (hangul)
- 선
- Korean (romanized)
- seon
- Vietnamese
- ThiềnThiệnXèng
- Kantenji (braille kanji)
- ⡗⠾
Meaning
- Zen, silent meditation
- Zen, méditation
- Zen, meditação silenciosa
- Zen, meditación
Stroke order
Components in kanji 禅
Popular words containing this kanji
- dhyana (profound meditation)
Extended information
Frequency 1902
KANJIDIC Project
1619 "Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Andrew Nelson (now published as the "Classic" Nelson)
3255 "The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by John Haig
4104 "New Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Jack Halpern
1032 "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha) by Jack Halpern
708 "Remembering The Kanji" by James Heisig
1930 "A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage" (Gakken)
1551 "Japanese Names", by P.G. O'Neill
1886 "Essential Kanji" by .GP. O'Neill
1063 "Daikanwajiten" by Morohashi
24787P:8:494 "A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters" by Kenneth G. Henshall
1502 "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky
1540 "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky (2011 edition)
1642 Japanese Kanji Flashcards, by Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki (Series 1)
1580 Tuttle Kanji Cards, by Alexander Kask
1654 "Kanji in Context" by Nishiguchi and Kono
589 "Japanese For Busy People" vols I-III, published by the AJLT. The codes are the
volume.chapter
0 The "Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide"
1426 Codes from Yves Maniette's "Les Kanjis dans la tete" French adaptation of Heisig
1949 "Remembering The Kanji, 6th Ed." by James Heisig
2080 "Kodansha Kanji Dictionary", (2nd Ed. of the NJECD) by Jack Halpern
1306 "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) by Jack Halpern
947
Halpern's SKIP (System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns) code
1-4-9 The descriptor codes for The Kanji Dictionary (Tuttle1996) by Spahn and Hadamitzky
4e9.2 The "Four Corner" code for the kanji. This is a code invented by Wang Chen in 1928
3225.6 The codes developed by the late Father Joseph De Roo, and published in his book "2001 Kanji" (Bonjinsha)
655
JIS X 0208-1997 - kuten coding
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1-33-21 Decimal representation of the UTF16 character
31109