Word Meaning 七賢

しちけん shichiken

七賢 is read as しちけん (shichiken) and means Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove.

Meaning

English

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
the Seven Wise Men (of Confucius's Analects)

Reading

Kana

しちけん

Romaji

shichiken

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 18 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 3級 Rank 110401 Priority R

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

七賢人

しちけんじん

the Seven Wise Men (of Greece)

竹林七賢

ちくりんのしちけん

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

七宝

しちほう

cloisonne ware

七大州

しちだいしゅう

the seven continents

七島

しちとう

Shichito matgrass (Cyperus malaccensis)

七月革命

しちがつかくめい

July Revolution (France, 1830)

七大寺

しちだいじ

the seven great temples of Nara (Daian-ji, Gango-ji, Horyu-ji, Kofuku-ji, Saidai-ji, Todai-ji, Yakushi-ji)

七辺形

しちへんけい

heptagon

七音音階

しちおんおんかい

heptatonic scale

七十古希

しちじゅうこき

men seldom live to be seventy

七並べ

しちならべ

fan-tan (game)

七角形

しちかくけい