禅
chánshàn HSK7

meditation

禅 禪 chán frequency
Zen noun
(bound form) Zen Buddhism; Buddhist meditation or the practice of quiet contemplation; often used to describe things related to Buddhist monks or temples

禅是不能讲的。

chán shì bù​néng jiǎng de.

Zen cannot be explained.

surname
a Chinese surname
禅 禪 shàn
to abdicate
(bound form) for an emperor to hand over the throne to someone of a different surname
imperial sacrifice
(bound form) to perform religious sacrifices to heaven and earth, often on a mountain

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,196th most common 28.6 per million
Movie subtitles
3,091st most common 3.01 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.28 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
7.64 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
禪
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+7985

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)