U+79AA "禪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
禪
U+79AA "禪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram that represents a profound and multifaceted concept primarily rooted in East Asian philosophy and religion. It is the Chinese and Japanese character for "Zen," the school of Mahayana Buddhism that emphasizes meditation and intuitive insight over scriptural study. Historically, "禪" also denotes the ancient Chinese practice of offering sacrifices to Heaven or Earth, as well as a state of meditative absorption. Its traditional form evokes the idea of a spiritual or mental "transfer" or "abandonment," linking the character to both the quietude of meditation and the act of relinquishing worldly attachments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+79AA |
| 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 | 禪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 禪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA6 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x79AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000079AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u79aa |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C149 |
| kCCCII | 214E7B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7453 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7453 |
| kCangjie | IFRRJ |
| kCantonese | sim4 |
| kCihaiT | 984.504 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1267.260 |
| kDefinition | meditation, contemplation (dhyana); to level ground for altar; abdicate |
| kEACC | 214E7B |
| kFanqie | 市連 時戰 |
| kFenn | 826H |
| kFennIndex | 13.09 435.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3625.6 |
| kGB1 | 7688 |
| kGSR | 0147b' |
| kHangul | 선:0E |
| kHanYu | 42408.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42408.100:shàn,chán,tán |
| kHKGlyph | 2885 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1267.260 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42408.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0846.360 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-6C78 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C149 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6338 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E2C0 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6049 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7453 |
| kJapanese | セン ゼン ゆずる |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010:U+7985 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | YUZURU SHIZUKA |
| kJapaneseOn | ZEN SEN |
| kJis0 | 6724 |
| kKangXi | 0846.360 |
| kKorean | SEN |
| kLau | 2794 2807 |
| kMandarin | chán |
| kMatthews | 5650 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2718 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ018954 MJ018954:E0101 MJ018955:E0102 MJ059973:E0103 MJ058215:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 24835 24835:E0101 |
| kNelson | 3257 |
| kPhonetic | 1294 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5899+113.5.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 113.12 |
| kSBGY | 138.37 409.20 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "禅" U+7985 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 481.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chán粵sim4 shàn粵sin6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4407 |
| kTang | *zhiɛn zhiɛ̀n |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 263:266 |
| kXHC1983 | 0117.111:chán 0999.101:shàn |