Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

仙: hermit, wizard

Also: cent

JLPT N15 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 山 gives the sound

5 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

センsen · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 仙台せんだいSendai (city in Miyagi)
  • 仙人せんにんimmortal mountain wizard (in Taoism)
  • 水仙すいせんdaffodil (esp. Narcissus tazetta var.…

Also read セント, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

All 103
山

Also built on mountain (山)

All 28

仙 takes the 山 family's reading, セン (sen).

Also read セン

38 kanji share this on'yomiAll 38

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
仙 hermit · 亻
vs出 exit · 凵
仙 has 亻 where 出 has 凵.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xiān

Same form: 仙 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
仙 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
仙 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin xiān most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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