Memory phrase for the character: 禅

禅

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Meaning

Zen meditation

Pronunciation

 ZEN

Explanation

 Left: to show altar 示/礻, right: merely, simply 単 (It shines the sun 日 in the group of ten 十 [= with the 9 planets] as the mere single.)

Mnemonic
 
You are at the altar simply/merely (yourself) during: Zen meditation.

Radicals

礻 to show, altarThe radical shimesu is a simplification of "to show" 示, which is a pictogram of an altar.
単 simply, merelyIt shines the sun 日 in a group of ten 十 [with nine planets, including Pluto] as the mere single.
sun beams
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 Vocabulary

禅 ぜん  Zen (Buddhism)

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