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Gender Masculine
Usage Japanese
Scripts 然, 善, 禅(Japanese Kanji) ぜん(Japanese Hiragana) ゼン(Japanese Katakana)
Meaning & History
This name can be used as 然 (zen, nen, sa, shika, shika.shi, shika.ri) meaning "if so, in that case, so, sort of thing, well," 善 (zen, i.i, yo.i, yo.ku, yoshi.tosuru) meaning "good(ness), virtuous" or 禅 (sen, zen, shizuka, yuzu.ru) meaning "silent meditation, Zen," the latter being the Japanese on'yomi/reading of the Chinese word chán (禅), which is derived from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, meaning 'absorption, meditative state.'
One bearer of this name is theatre actor Zen Kajiwara (梶原 善) (1966-).
One bearer of this name is theatre actor Zen Kajiwara (梶原 善) (1966-).