U+7985 CJK Unified Ideograph-7985
U+7985 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as meditation, contemplation. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is chán.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+7985 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Zen (Japanese; from Chinese Chán; in Korea Seon, Vietnam Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School (Chánzong 禪宗, "meditation school") or the Buddha-mind school (foxin zong)", and later developed into various sub-schools and branches. From China, Chán spread south to Vietnam and became Vietnamese Thiền, northeast to Korea to become Seon Buddhism, and east to Japan, becoming Japanese Zen.
The term Zen is derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the Middle Chinese word 禪 (chán), an abbreviation of 禪那 (chánnà), which is a Chinese transliteration of the Sanskrit word ध्यान dhyāna ("meditation"). Zen emphasizes rigorous self-restraint, meditation-practice and insight (見性, Ch. jiànxìng, Jp. kensho), "perceiving the true nature" of oneself as Buddha-mind (bodhicitta and Buddha-nature), and the personal expression of this insight in daily life for the benefit of others. As such, it de-emphasizes knowledge alone of sutras and doctrine, and favors direct understanding through spiritual practice and interaction with an accomplished teacher or Master.
Zen teaching draws from numerous sources of Sarvastivada meditation practice and Mahāyāna thought, especially Yogachara, the Tathāgatagarbha sūtras, the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, and the Huayan school, with their emphasis on Buddha-nature, totality, and the Bodhisattva-ideal. The Prajñāpāramitā literature, as well as Madhyamaka thought, have also been influential in the shaping of the apophatic and sometimes iconoclastic nature of Zen rhetoric.
Furthermore, the Chan School was also influenced by Taoist philosophy, especially Neo-Daoist thought.
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Nº | 31109 |
UTF-8 | E7 A6 85 |
UTF-16 | 79 85 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 79 85 |
URL-Quoted | %E7%A6%85 |
HTML hex reference | 禅 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 禅 |
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | C1 B5 |
Pīnyīn | chán |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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274E7B | |
IFCWJ | |
sim4 | |
1265.080 | |
meditation, contemplation | |
4B4E7B | |
3925.6 3225.6 | |
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7688 | |
42402.070 | |
AGJ | |
1265.080 | |
42402.070 | |
0844.171 | |
G0-6C78 | |
J0-4135 | |
ゼン セン ゆずる | |
YUZURU SHIZUKA | |
ZEN | |
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2010 | |
0844.171 | |
SEN | |
4407 | |
chán | |
MJ018881 MJ018881:E0101 MJ018880:E0102 | |
24787' 24787':E0101 24754:E0102 | |
3255 | |
C+2743+113.4.9 | |
113.8 | |
481.02 | |
2013:2793 | |
036.180:chán 325.060:shàn | |
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0117.110:chán 0999.100:shàn |