仙
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Han character [edit]
仙 (radical 9 人+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人山 (OU), four-corner 22270, composition ⿰亻山)
- ascend, ascended, ascending, transcend, transcended, transcending, transcendent, transcendence
- a sage, an enlightened person
- a Taoist hermit or super-being
- a Buddhist deva, a immortal spirit or a fairy
References [edit]
- 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
Cantonese [edit]
Hanzi [edit]
仙 (Jyutping: sin1)
Japanese [edit]
Kanji [edit]
Readings [edit]
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Etymology 1 [edit]
From Sinitic 仙.
Noun [edit]
- a sage or hermit, an enlightened person, usually immortal and ageless
- (mythology) short for 仙人 (sennin): a wizard or mage; an immortal living as a hermit in the mountains
- by extension, the region or area where a sennin lives
- the supernatural techniques for becoming immortal and ageless
- a person of exceptional talent
Etymology 2 [edit]
From English cent, itself from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
Noun [edit]
仙 (katakana セント, romaji sento)
Usage notes [edit]
This word is almost always spelled in katakana as セント.
Korean [edit]
Hanja [edit]
仙 (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn)
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Mandarin [edit]
Noun [edit]
仙 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin xiān)
Compounds [edit]
- 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
Vietnamese [edit]
Han character [edit]
仙 (tiên)
Noun [edit]
仙
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