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Kanji Detail for 仙 - "hermit, immortal, wizard"

仙

  • Meaning

    仙 means "hermit, immortal, wizard."

    1. Hermit - One who lives in solitude; a mountain recluse.

    2. Immortal - A being who has transcended death; a sage with supernatural powers.

    3. Wizard - One with mystical abilities.

    4. Otherworldly - Ethereal; transcendent; beyond the ordinary.

  • Words using 仙

    • 仙台 せんだい Listen Sendai (city in Miyagi)

  • Four-character idioms with 仙

    • 羽化登仙 うかとうせん Listen a sense of release (as if one had wings and were riding on air)

  • Tattoo check: 仙

    • Verified meaning: hermit, immortal, wizard
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read せん, せんじ, そんひ, のり)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 仙

    Given names 仙(せん)Listen

    Surnames 仙(せんじ)Listen 仙(そんひ)Listen 仙(のり)Listen 仙(ひさ)Listen

  • Compare with other kanji that mean the same thing:

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    hermit; wizard; cent

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    Taoist super-being, transcendent, immortal

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    immortal

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    god; fairy; immortal, transcendent

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    In Daoism, those who abstain from grains and cultivate themselves to achieve immortality are called 仙. | As opposed to ordinary. Anything beyond the ordinary is called 仙. Du Fu has "Song of the Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup." | A praising term for the deceased. Such as 仙逝, 仙去 (passed away). | A currency name in Hong Kong. Ten cents (仙) equals one 毫.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    sen(セン) セン

    sento(セント) セント

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    5 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    人 亻 (hito・nimben・hitogashira・hitoyane)

  • Related Keywords

    hermit immortal wizard cent nimble otherworldly sage alchemy asceticism celestial being divinity enchantment enlightenment fairy longevity magic mountain mysticism mythical recluse solitude sorcery spirit transcended

Sentences including 仙

  • He does not live in sendai.

  • She is going to sendai this spring.

  • Not i but my brother lives in sendai.

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