Keyword
hermit
Info
FrequencyTop 2000-2100
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel Pre-2
Heisig1061
Readings
せん
(98%)
Composed of
thin person
mountain
Used in vocabulary (60 in total)
hermit; wizard; wizardry
Sendai (city in Miyagi)
immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit); person not bound by earthly desires
daffodil (esp. Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis); narcissus
immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); Taoist immortal; supernatural being; (in Japan) 11th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C)
wizardry; secret of immortality
fairy; nymph; elf
meisen silk
fairyland; enchanted land
Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)
(garden) balsam; Impatiens balsamina
six immortals of poetry; six notable Japanese poets whose poems were included in the anthology Kokin Wakashū
sacrum; sacral bone; hermitry; appearance of a hermit; unworldliness
great (waka) poet; immortal poet
dwelling place of hermits; pure land away from the world
cent (monetary unit)
fairyland; enchanted land
heavenly immortal (in Taoism)
a sense of release (as if one had wings and were riding on air)
panacea; elixir (of life)
elixir (of life)
heavy drinker
jonquil (Narcissus jonquilla)
earthly immortal (in Taoism)
lychnis (Lychnis senno)
great poet
reclaimed paper
drawing paper
enchanted cave
(arch.) hermit's residence; retired emperor's palace
sweet autumn clematis (Clematis terniflora)
Shenxian thought (ancient Chinese folk belief in the existence of mountain wizards)
sacral vertebra
immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); crane
wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus); Lent lily
Chinese mesona (Platostoma palustre)
becoming a saint; death of a high-ranking person
gambir; gambier; catechu; cutch
wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus); Lent lily
multicolorfin rainbowfish (Parajulis poecilepterus, was Halichoeres poecilopterus)
multicolorfin rainbowfish (Parajulis poecilepterus, was Halichoeres poecilopterus)
multicolorfin rainbowfish (Parajulis poecilepterus, was Halichoeres poecilopterus)
Russian false yellow lupine (Thermopsis lupinoides)
master painter
Ficus erecta (species of ficus)
Chloranthus glaber
palace of a retired emperor
lumbosacral
grass jelly (jelly-like Asian dessert)
eastern crowned warbler (Phylloscopus coronatus)
Lycoris traubii (species of spider lily)
love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus); tassel flower; velvet flower; foxtail amaranth
Examples (11 in total)
This is a map of the city of Sendai.
The consequences of Sendai's earthquake were dreadful!
The train bound for Sendai has just left.