Surname · Japanese
禅
“profound meditation”
禅 (Zen) is a surname from Middle Chinese, ultimately from Sanskrit. It is used in Japanese.
JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Zen.
Meaning & origin
What it means
禅 goes back to Sanskrit ध्यान (dhyāna), meaning “profound meditation.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
禅 comes from Middle Chinese, and ultimately from Sanskrit.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Sanskrit ध्यान (dhyāna, “profound meditation”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
禅’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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