禅
禪shàn
#2,191 most
frequent character
to abdicate
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
禅 chán pairs 礻, an ancestral tablet, with 単 dān as sound part. Worship gives original 'offer sacrifices to heaven'; later it grew to Buddhist meditation and Zen. Read shàn, it grew to 'abdicate.'
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