禅

See also: 禪 and 褝

禅	U+7985, 禅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7985

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Simplified from 禪.

Simplified from 禪 (示 → 礻 and 單 → 单) (2 strokes on top of phonetic) in simplified Chinese.
Simplified from 禪 (示 → 礻 and 單 → 単) (3 strokes on top of phonetic) in Japanese shinjitai.

禅 (radical 113 示+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 戈火金田十 (IFCWJ), composition ⿰礻単(J) or ⿰礻单(G))

For pronunciation and definitions of 禅 – see 禪 (“dhyana; deep meditation; contemplation; Buddhist doctrine; Buddhist teachings; etc.”). (This character, 禅, is the simplified and variant form of 禪.)
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Shinjitai	禅
Kyūjitai	禪

禅

Goon: ぜん (zen, Jōyō)
Kan’on: せん (sen)
Kun: しずか (shizuka, 禅)^{←しづか (siduka, historical)}; ゆずる (yuzuru, 禅る)^{←ゆづる (yuduru, historical)}

禅 (ぜん)門 (もん) (zenmon)
禅 (ぜん)問 (もん)答 (どう) (zenmondō)
禅 (ぜん)林 (りん) (zenrin)
吹禅 (すいぜん) (suizen): blowing meditation
坐 (ざ)禅 (ぜん) (zazen), 座 (ざ)禅 (ぜん) (zazen): sitting meditation
野 (や)狐 (こ)禅 (ぜん) (yakozen): someone who has not fully attained enlightenment, but puts on airs and becomes self-important as if they have

Shortened from 禅那 (zenna, “Zen meditation practice”), from Middle Chinese 禪那 (MC d͡ʑiᴇn nɑ), from Sanskrit ध्यान (dhyāna, “a type of meditation”); compare Pali झान (jhāna).

On’yomi: Goon
- (Tokyo) ぜん [zéꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
- (Tokyo) ぜん [zèń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
- IPA^(key): [d͡zẽ̞ɴ]

禅 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 禪, hiragana ぜん, rōmaji Zen)

1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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

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