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1613<br />

L1<br />

禅<br />

ZEN<br />

Zen, meditation<br />

13 strokes<br />

ZAZENmeditation<br />

ZENSHŪZen sect<br />

ZENdera Zen temple<br />

Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen); traditional<br />

. Has /723 ‘show, altar’ (originally, pictograph<br />

of sacrificial altar’), and (569<br />

‘simple’) as phonetic with associated sense<br />

‘raised earth platform’, giving ‘raised earth<br />

platform for Emperor’s rituals to Heaven’.<br />

The meaning ‘Zen’ (Buddhism) is a loan usage<br />

in which was borrowed for its sound<br />

value to represent a loanword into Chinese<br />

based on Sanskrit dhyāna ‘meditation’, but<br />

this graph may well have been selected for<br />

this role partly for semantic reasons also<br />

on account of its original meaning associated<br />

with ritual. SS1984:532; OT1968:725;<br />

TA1965:537.<br />

Mnemonic: ZEN ENTAILS SIMPLE<br />

MEDITATION AT ALTAR<br />

1614<br />

漸<br />

ZEN<br />

gradual advance<br />

L1<br />

14 strokes<br />

ZENJIgradually<br />

ZENSHINTEKIgradual<br />

TŌZEN eastward advance<br />

Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 42<br />

‘water’, and (NJK ‘cut, behead, kill’) as phonetic.<br />

Shuowen defines as ‘name of a river’.<br />

In considering the meaning ‘gradually’, Katō<br />

proposes a link with another homophonous<br />

graph listed in Shuowen, viz.

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