Chinese Name Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chán Mandarin Wade-Giles Ch'an Cantones e Jyutping Sim Shanghainese ( Wu ) Zeu [zø] Traditional Chinese 禪 Simplified Chinese 禅 Japanese Name Romaji Zen Kanji 禅 Korean Name Revised Romanization Seon McCune-Reischauer Sŏn Hangul 선 Hanja 禪 Pali Name Romanization Jhāna Devanāgarī झान Sinhala ඣාන Sanskrit