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Kanji Detail for 仙 - "hermit, immortal, wizard"
仙
- Meaning
仙 means "hermit, immortal, wizard."
Hermit - One who lives in solitude; a mountain recluse.
Immortal - A being who has transcended death; a sage with supernatural powers.
Wizard - One with mystical abilities.
Otherworldly - Ethereal; transcendent; beyond the ordinary.
- 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
- Kunyomi
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- Strokes
- Radical
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