Kanji N1

仙: hermit, wizard, cent

仙 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning hermit, wizard, cent, written with 5 strokes. It is read セン, セント (on), and has no common kun reading. It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 仙 (せん, hermit) and 仙台 (せんだい, Sendai).

仙

Meanings

  • hermit
  • wizard
  • cent
Strokes5
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1157 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • セン
  • セント

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • None in common use

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 仙

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 仙せん

    hermit; wizard

    JLPT N1
  • 仙台せんだい

    Sendai (city in Miyagi)

  • 仙人せんにん

    immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism)

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.