仙

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 僊

Han character

仙 (radical 9 人+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人山 (OU), four-corner 2227₀, composition ⿰亻山)

1. ascend, ascended, ascending, transcend, transcended, transcending, transcendent, transcendence
2. a sage, an enlightened person
3. a Taoist hermit or super-being
4. a Buddhist deva, a immortal spirit or a fairy

References

• KangXi: page 92, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 374
• Dae Jaweon: page 196, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 114, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4ED9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

仙 (Jyutping: sin1)

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Japanese

Kanji

仙 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kanyō'on: せんと (sento)
• Nanori: そま (soma), のり (nori), ひさ (hisa)

Compounds

仙界 (senkai): dwelling place of hermits 仙客 (senkaku): immortal mountain wizard, crane 仙宮 (senkyū): hermit's residence, retired emperor's palace 仙境, 仙郷 (senkyō): fairyland, enchanted land 仙窟 (senkutsu): enchanted cave 仙骨 (senkotsu): sacrum, sacral bone, hermitry 仙術 (senjutsu): wizardry, secret of immortality 仙女 (senjo, sennyo, sennyu): fairy, nymph, elf 仙台 (sendai): Sendai city 仙丹 (sentan): elixir, elixir of life 仙椎 (sentsui): sacral vertebra 仙人 (sennin): immortal mountain wizard, mountain man 仙翁 (sennō) Lychnis subspecies 仙薬 (senyaku): panacea, elixir of life 仙蓼 (senryō): Chloranthus glaber

仙人掌 (saboten): cactus 仙花紙 (senkashi): reclaimed paper 仙台侯 (sendaikō): Lord of Sendai 仙洞御所 (sentō-gosho): palace of a retired emperor 仙台虫喰 (sendai mushikui): eastern crowned warbler 仙台七夕まつり, 仙台棚幡まつり (sendai tanabata matsuri): Sendai Tanabata Festival 歌仙 (kasen): great poet 求仙, 九仙, 気宇仙 (kyūsen): multicolorfin rainbowfish 詩仙 (shisen): great poet 神仙 (shinsen): immortal mountain wizard, Taoist immortal, supernatural being 酒仙 (shusen): heavy drinker 水仙 (suisen): daffodil, narcissus 登仙 (tōsen): becoming a saint, death of a high-ranking person 銘仙 (meisen): meisen silk

腰仙 (yōsen): lumbosacral 天仙果 (inubiwa): Ficus erecta, species of ficus 鳳仙花 (hōsenka): balsam 雲仙岳 (unzendake): mountain in Nagasaki Prefecture 三仙叉 (sansensa): trident dagger 画仙紙 (gasenshi): drawing paper 中仙道 (nakasendō): Nakasendo, Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway 阿仙薬 (asenyaku): gambir, gambier, catechu, cutch 神仙思想 (shinsen shisō): Shenxian thought 黄水仙 (kizuisen, kisuisen): jonquil 夏水仙 (natsuzuisen): belladonnalily 羽化登仙 (uka tōsen): sense of release 鍾馗水仙 (shōkizuisen): Lycoris traubii, species of spider lily 喇叭水仙 (rappazuisen): trumpet daffodil

Etymology 1

From Sinitic 仙.

Noun

仙 (hiragana せん, romaji sen)

1. a sage or hermit, an enlightened person, usually immortal and ageless
2. (mythology) short for 仙人 (sennin): a wizard or mage; an immortal living as a hermit in the mountains
3. by extension, the region or area where a sennin lives
4. the supernatural techniques for becoming immortal and ageless
5. a person of exceptional talent

Etymology 2

From English cent, itself from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Noun

仙 (katakana セント, romaji sento)

1. one one-hundredth of a dollar: a cent

Usage notes

This word is almost always spelled in katakana as セント.

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Korean

Hanja

仙 (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn)

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Mandarin

Noun

仙 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin xiān)

1. xian; celestial being; immortal; fairy

Compounds

• 成仙: 'becoming immortal
• 仙境: wonderland
• 仙女: a female sage
• 仙人: a sage
• 仙劍: paladin
• 仙桃 (xiāntáo): Peaches of Immortality

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Vietnamese

Han character

仙 (tiên)

Noun

仙

1. fairy