禪
chánshàn

meditation

禅 (禪) chán frequency
meditation noun
dhyana or the practice of Buddhist meditation

僧人在禅房里坐禅。

sēng​rén zài chán fáng lǐ zuò​chán.

The monk is practicing meditation in the meditation room.

Zen noun
Zen Buddhism or its philosophical school

他对禅宗思想很感兴趣。

tā duì chán zōng sī​xiǎng hěn gǎn xìng​qù.

He is very interested in Zen thought.

禅 (禪) shàn
abdicate verb
to abdicate

他在晚年决定禅位于皇太子，自己退居二线。

tā zài wǎn​nián jué​dìng shàn​wèi yú huáng​tài​zǐ, zì​jǐ tuì​jū èr​xiàn.

In his later years, he decided to abdicate the throne to the crown prince and retire from active duty.

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
Simplified
禅
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+79AA

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