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The kanji 禅: meaning, readings and stroke order

禅

Meaning
Zen, meditation
On reading
ゼン zen
Kun reading
—
Strokes
13
Radical
示 sign
Level
Level 9 · senior high school
Old form
禪

Stroke order

Stroke order of 禅, 13 strokes: each box adds one stroke, the red one is the stroke being written

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese
thiền
Japanese
すわって こころを しずめる しゅぎょう。
Korean
선, 참선 (선)
Chinese
禅、坐禅

Readings, words and example sentences

ゼン zen · on reading · less common

Practise writing 禅 in the app

In Dino Kids your child writes 禅 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 9 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.

Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.