禅

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• this character has a slight difference (also strokes) between in China and in Japan
  • in China: 禅, in Japan: 禅

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

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

1. meditation, contemplation (DKW: 24787')

[edit] 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

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

禅 (Yale sim3, sin4 sin6)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

禅 (common kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: ぜん (zen)
• Kun: ゆずる (yuzuru), しずか (shizuka)

[edit] Compounds

• 禅刹
• 禅師
• 禅宗
• 禅定
• 禅譲
• 禅杖
• 禅僧
• 禅味
• 禅門
• 禅問答
• 禅林

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

禅 (traditional 禪, pinyin chán (chan2), shàn (shan4), Wade-Giles ch'an², sh'an⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 禅房
• 禅机
• 禅林
• 禅师
• 禅堂
• 禅院
• 禅杖
• 禅宗
• 禅让