仙

Meaning

仙 centers on a person who has transcended ordinary life: a hermit living in remote mountains, or a wizard with supernatural powers. The rare 'cent' meaning is a phonetic borrowing unrelated to the core idea.

• 仙台せんだい
  N5

  Sendai (city in Miyagi)

• 仙人せんにん

  immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit)

• 水仙すいせん

  daffodil (esp. Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis); narcissus

• 歌仙かせん

  great (waka) poet; immortal poet

• 仙骨せんこつ

  sacrum; sacral bone

• 神仙しんせん

  immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); Taoist immortal; supernatural being

• 仙女せんじょ

  fairy; nymph; elf

• 仙界せんかい

  dwelling place of hermits; pure land away from the world

• 銘仙めいせん

  meisen silk

• 鳳仙花ほうせんか

  (garden) balsam (Impatiens balsamina); touch-me-not

• 仙せん
  N1

  hermit; wizard

• こども教育宝仙大学こどもきょういくほうせんだいがく

  Hosen College of Childhood Education

• ラッパ水仙ラッパずいせん

  wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus); Lent lily

• 三仙叉さんせんさ

  trident dagger

• 三十六歌仙さんじゅうろっかせん

  the thirty-six immortal poets (of the Heian period; as named by Fujiwara no Kintō)

• 仙丹せんたん

  elixir (of life)

• 仙人掌せんにんしょう

  cactus

• 仙人穀せんにんこく

  love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus); tassel flower; velvet flower; foxtail amaranth

• 仙人草せんにんそう

  sweet autumn clematis (Clematis terniflora)

• 仙台サンプラザせんだいサンプラザ

  Sendai Sun Plaza (hotel)

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