Kanji1 / 13
禅 kanji
Zen, silent meditation
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ゼンセン
Kun readings
しずかゆずる
Variant forms
禪Words with 禅
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —禅那dhyana (profound meditation)
- —吹禅Zen blowing meditation (performed with shakuhachi)
- —友禅yuzen (dyeing method or pattern); silk printed by the yuzen process
- —禅室room for zazen meditation; room for Buddhist practices; Zen monk's quarters; head priest (of a Zen temple)
- —禅院Zen temple
- —禅浄Zen Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism
- —禅知wisdom obtained from meditation; wisdom and meditation
- —生禅self-styled Zen philosophy; sciolism; dabbling in Zen
- —禅法method of Buddhist study and practice that is based in meditative concentration; meditative methods used in Zen Buddhism
- —禅語Zen terminology; Zen words
- —禅道Zen ascetic practices; Zen meditation; Zen teachings; Zen
- —禅刹Zen temple
- —友禅染type of dyeing method or pattern; silk printed by the Yuzen process
- —友禅菊Tartarian aster (Aster Novi-Belgii)
- —祖師禅Zen Buddhism based on the teachings of Bodhidharma
- —如来禅Zen Buddhism based on the original teachings of Buddha
- —座禅草eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
- —禅坊主Zen monk
- —筆禅道Art of the Brush (esp. school of Japanese Zen calligraphy)
- —禅宗様traditional Zen-style architecture