禅

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See also: 禪 and 褝
禅 U+7985, 禅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7985
← 禄
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 禆 →

Translingual

Traditional 禪
Simplified 禅
Japanese 禅
Korean 禪

Glyph origin

Simplified from 禪.

  • Simplified from 禪 (示 → 礻 and 單 → 单) (2 strokes on top of phonetic) in simplified Chinese.
  • Simplified from 禪 (示 → 礻 and 單 → 単) (3 strokes on top of phonetic) in Japanese shinjitai.

Han character

禅 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+8 in Chinese, 示+9 in Japanese, 12 strokes in Chinese, 13 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 戈火金田十 (IFCWJ), composition ⿰礻単(J) or ⿰礻单(G))

References

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

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 禅 – see 禪 (“dhyana; deep meditation; contemplation; Buddhist doctrine; Buddhist teachings; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of 禪).
Notes:

Japanese

Shinjitai

禅

Kyūjitai

禪

Kanji

禅

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

  1. Chinese emperor sacrifice ceremony
  2. Chinese emperor abdicating the throne
  3. meditative concentration
  4. dhyana, Zen Buddhism

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology

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Kanji in this term
禅
ぜん
Grade: S
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
禪 (kyūjitai)

Shortened from 禅那 (zenna, “Zen meditation practice”), from Middle Chinese 禪那 (MC dzyen na), a transliteration of Sanskrit ध्यान (dhyāna, “profound meditation”). Compare Pali jhāna.

Pronunciation

Noun

禅(ぜん) • (zen) 

  1. (Buddhism) dhyana-samadhi: This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    Synonyms: 禅定 (zenjō), 禅那 (zenna)
  2. (Buddhism) the disciplines and doctrine of Zen Buddhism
  3. Short for 座禅 (zazen): a sitting position in a Zen meditation

Derived terms

Derived terms

Proper noun

禅(ぜん) • (Zen) 

  1. (Buddhism) Short for 禅宗 (Zenshū): Zen Buddhism
  2. a surname

Descendants

  • → English: Zen
  • → French: zen
  • → German: Zen
  • → Spanish: Zen
  • → Thai: เซน (seen), เซ็น (sen)

References

  1. ^ “禅”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. ^ “禅”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. ^ “禅”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. Zen
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