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jmdict 1387170 Active (id: 2210533)
仙人 [spec2,news2,nf34] 僊人 [rK]
せんにん [spec2,news2,nf34]
1. [n]
▶ immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism)
▶ mountain man (esp. a hermit)
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1387100 仙【せん】 1. hermit; wizard
  ⇐ see: 1764940 神仙【しんせん】 1. immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); Taoist immortal; supernatural being
  ⇐ see: 2844630 地仙【ちせん】 1. earthly immortal (in Taoism)
  ⇐ see: 2844629 天仙【てんせん】 1. heavenly immortal (in Taoism)
  ⇐ see: 1755100 山人【やまびと】 2. mountain wizard
  ⇐ see: 2199160 仙客【せんかく】 1. immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism)
2. [n]
▶ person not bound by earthly desires



History:
6. A 2022-10-01 08:01:18  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
5. A* 2022-10-01 06:00:08  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬─────────┬───────╮
│ 仙人   │ 668,719 │ 97.1% │
│ 僊人   │      92 │  0.0% │ 🡠 rK (daijs, koj)
│ せんにん │  20,039 │  2.9% │
╰─ーーーー─┴─────────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
4. A 2020-11-24 06:43:31  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2020-11-24 05:21:22  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
chujiten's sense 2 is a lot simpler than ours: "unworldly man" (but maybe less than ideal as "unworldly" also means "inexperienced")
daijs has 2 無欲で世事に疎い人。
koj: ③浮世離れした人のたとえ。
daijr: 2)世俗的な常識にとらわれない,無欲な人。
  Diff:
@@ -26 +26 @@
-<gloss>one not bound by earthly desires or the thoughts of normal men</gloss>
+<gloss>person not bound by earthly desires</gloss>
2. A 2020-02-18 06:39:58  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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