聖

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

聖 (radical 128 耳+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 尸口竹土 (SRHG), four-corner 1610₄)

1. holy, sacred
2. sage

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 967, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29074
• Dae Jaweon: page 1415, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2789, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8056

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

聖 (Yale sing3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

聖 (grade 6 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: せい (sei), しょう (shō)
• Kun: ひじり (hijiri), きよい (purified, holy)
• Nanori: きよ(kiyo), きよし(kiyoshi)

[edit] Compounds

聖歌 聖化 聖書 聖人 聖性 聖像 聖体 聖徒 聖獣

聖堂 聖年 楽聖 神聖 成聖 大聖 涜聖 列聖

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

聖 (hangeul 성, revised seong, McCune-Reischauer sŏng, Yale seng)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

聖 (simplified 圣, pinyin shèng (sheng4), Wade-Giles sheng⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 聖誕節
• 聖誕

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

聖 (thánh)