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
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
座禅
Zen sitting meditation
寺で 座禅を 組みます。
We sit in Zen meditation at a temple.
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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.