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
- —野狐禅self-styled Zen philosophy; sciolism; dabbling in Zen
- —五門禅five approaches to meditation; five objects of meditation
- —京友禅Kyoyuzen dyeing; Kyoto printed silk
- —蝦夷禅庭花day lily (Hemerocallis dumortieri); orange-yellow day lily; Nikko day lily
- —坐禅zazen (seated Zen meditation, usu. in a cross-legged position)
- —禅智wisdom obtained from meditation; wisdom and meditation
- —友禅染めtype of dyeing method or pattern; silk printed by the Yuzen process