U+7985 "禅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

禅

U+7985 "禅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character with profound historical and spiritual significance, primarily representing the concept of Zen in Buddhism. It is composed of the radical for "spirit" or "divinity" on the left and a phonetic component on the right, and its meanings encompass meditation, contemplation, and the act of abandoning worldly concerns to achieve enlightenment. In East Asian cultures, particularly in China, Japan, and Korea, this character is central to Buddhist practices and philosophy, symbolizing the direct, intuitive experience of reality beyond intellectual analysis. While it is most famously associated with the Chan (Zen) school of Buddhism, it also appears in secular contexts referring to quiet reflection or the transfer of power or authority, as in the term "禅让" for abdication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7985
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	禅
HTML Hex Encoding	禅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA6 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7985
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007985
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7985

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII	274E7B
kCangjie	IFCWJ
kCantonese	sim4
kDaeJaweon	1265.080
kDefinition	meditation, contemplation
kEACC	4B4E7B
kFourCornerCode	3925.6 3225.6
kGB0	7688
kHanYu	42402.070
kIICore	AGJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1265.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42402.070
kIRGKangXi	0844.171
kIRG_GSource	G0-6C78
kIRG_JSource	J0-4135
kJapanese	ゼンセンゆずる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kTGH	2013:2793
kJapaneseKun	YUZURU SHIZUKA
kJapaneseOn	ZEN
kJis0	3321
kKangXi	0844.171
kKorean	SEN
kMainlandTelegraph	4407
kMandarin	chán
kMojiJoho	MJ018881 MJ018881:E0101 MJ018880:E0102
kMorohashi	24787' 24787':E0101 24754:E0102
kNelson	3255
kPhonetic	1294*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2743+113.4.9
kRSUnicode	113.8
kSMSZD2003Index	481.02
kTGHZ2013	036.180:chán 325.060:shàn
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"禪" U+79AA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GJ
kXHC1983	0117.110:chán 0999.100:shàn