参禅 參禪

参禅參禪 in English

cān chán
to practice Chan Buddhist meditation / to practice Zen meditation / to sit in meditation

Character breakdown

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Le caractère 参 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 参 Show the animation
Le caractère 參 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 禪, the traditional character: 禅 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 禪 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 禪 Clerical script 東漢

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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