# 禪 U+79AA CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79AA

A Chinese character meaning “meditation, contemplation (dhyana); to level ground for altar; abdicate”, read chán in Mandarin.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `禪` |
| Codepoint | U+79AA |
| Name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79AA |
| Block | [CJK Unified Ideographs](https://unicodekit.com/block/cjk-unified-ideographs) |
| Script | Han |
| Category | Other Letter (Lo) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `禪` `禪` |
| CSS | `\79AA` |
| JavaScript | `\u79AA` |
| UTF-8 | E7 A6 AA |
| UTF-16 | 79AA |
| Definition | meditation, contemplation (dhyana); to level ground for altar; abdicate |
| Mandarin | chán |
| Cantonese | sim4 |
| Japanese | ZEN SEN YUZURU SHIZUKA |
| Korean | SEN |

## Related characters

- 禩 [U+79A9 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79A9](https://unicodekit.com/char/79A9)
- 禫 [U+79AB CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79AB](https://unicodekit.com/char/79AB)
- 禨 [U+79A8 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79A8](https://unicodekit.com/char/79A8)
- 禬 [U+79AC CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79AC](https://unicodekit.com/char/79AC)
- 禧 [U+79A7 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79A7](https://unicodekit.com/char/79A7)
- 禭 [U+79AD CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79AD](https://unicodekit.com/char/79AD)
- 禦 [U+79A6 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79A6](https://unicodekit.com/char/79A6)
- 禮 [U+79AE CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79AE](https://unicodekit.com/char/79AE)
- 禥 [U+79A5 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79A5](https://unicodekit.com/char/79A5)
- 禯 [U+79AF CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79AF](https://unicodekit.com/char/79AF)
- 禤 [U+79A4 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79A4](https://unicodekit.com/char/79A4)
- 禰 [U+79B0 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79B0](https://unicodekit.com/char/79B0)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/79AA · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/79AA