chan
chan Lexical Profile
• noun
A Chinese school of Mahayana Buddhism emphasizing meditation and direct spiritual insight into one's Buddha-nature, which later developed into Japanese Zen.
"The monastery's curriculum focuses on the classical texts and meditative practices of Chinese Chan."
An anonymous online imageboard website, typically modeled after Japanese and English forums such as 2chan and 4chan (informal).
"Many early internet memes originated on obscure chans before spreading to mainstream social media platforms."
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Word Origin & Etymology
In the Buddhist sense, borrowed from Mandarin Chinese 'Chán', an abbreviation of 'chánnà', which transliterates Sanskrit 'dhyāna' (meditation). In internet slang, clipped from imageboard names such as Futaba Channel (2chan) and 4chan.
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