聖
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See also 圣
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Translingual [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 耳 (“ear”) + phonetic 呈
Han character [edit]
聖 (radical 128 耳+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 尸口竹土 (SRHG), four-corner 16104)
References [edit]
- 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
Cantonese [edit]
Hanzi [edit]
聖 (simplified 圣, Yale sing3)
Japanese [edit]
Kanji [edit]
Readings [edit]
- On: せい (sei), しょう (shō)
- Kun: ひじり (hijiri), ひじり-だつ (hijiri-datsu), ひじ-る (hiji-ru), きよい (kiyoi)
- Nanori: きよ (kiyo), きよし (kiyoshi)
Compounds [edit]
Compounds
Synonyms [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
Compound of 日 (hi, “day, light, the sun”) + 知り (shiri, “knowing”). The shiri changes to jiri due to rendaku (連濁).
Noun [edit]
聖 (hiragana ひじり, romaji hijiri)
- a very virtuous or godly person; a saint
- (honorific) the emperor
- a sage
- an expert; someone distinguished in their field
- a virtuous or high-ranking Buddhist priest or monk
- a Buddhist priest or monk in general
- a monk who has gone into seclusion for purposes of asceticism and spiritual enlightenment
- a monk who has adopted an itinerant lifestyle for purposes of asceticism andspiritual enlightenment, supporting themselves by gathering alms and food contributions; by extension, an itinerant preacher monk from Mount Kōya
- (euphemistic) alternate name for 清酒 (seishu) (“refined sake”)
- a textile peddler (from the resemblance to itinerant 高野聖 (Kōya hijiri) Buddhist preachers who would carry everything on their backs)
Synonyms [edit]
- (saint): 聖人 (せいじん, seijin)
- (emperor): 天皇 (てんのう, tennō)
- (sage): 仙人 (せんにん, sennnin)
- (expert): 達人 (たつじん, tatsujin)
- (virtuous monk): 聖僧 (せいそう, seisō), 大徳 (だいとく, daitoku)
- (monk or priest in general): 僧侶 (そうりょう, sōryo), 法師 (ほうし, hōshi)
- (ascetic in seclusion): 修験者 (しゅげんしゃ, shugensha)
- (itinerant ascetic, textile peddler): 聖方 (ひじりかた, hijirikata)
- (itinerant preacher monk): 高野聖 (こうやひじり, Kōya hijiri)
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Sinitic 聖.
Adjectival noun [edit]
聖 (なり-nari inflection, hiragana せい, romaji sei)
Noun [edit]
- a saint; a holy person
- holiness, sacredness
- (euphemistic) alternate name for 清酒 (seishu) (“refined sake”)
Etymology 3 [edit]
Translation of English saint, from Latin sanctus.
Prefix [edit]
- (Catholicism) prefix added to the names of saints
Etymology 4 [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
聖 (hiragana たかし, romaji Takashi)
- A male given name
Etymology 5 [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
聖 (hiragana さとし, romaji Satoshi)
- A male given name
Korean [edit]
Hanja [edit]
聖 (hangeul 성, revised seong, McCune-Reischauer sŏng, Yale seng)
Mandarin [edit]
Hanzi [edit]
聖 (simplified 圣, pinyin shèng (sheng4), Wade-Giles sheng4)
Compounds [edit]
- 聖埃克絮佩利
- 聖保羅
- 聖彼得堡
- 聖餐
- 聖誕
- 聖誕節
- 聖誕卡
- 聖誕老人
- 聖誕樹
- 聖誕夜
- 聖地
- 聖多美和普林西比
- 聖赫勒拿島
- 聖基茨和尼維斯
- 聖蹟
- 聖潔
- 聖經
- 聖經賢傳
- 聖雷莫
- 聖靈
- 聖盧西亞
- 聖路易
- 聖馬力諾
- 聖廟
- 聖明
- 聖莫里茨
- 聖母
- 聖人
- 聖塞瓦斯提安
- 聖上
- 聖手
- 聖水
- 聖文森特和格林納丁斯
- 聖賢
- 聖藥
- 聖諭
- 聖旨
Vietnamese [edit]
Han character [edit]
聖 (thánh)
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- Han phono-semantic compounds
- Han characters
- Grade 6 kanji
- Japanese kanji
- Japanese compound words
- Rendaku
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese euphemisms
- Japanese terms derived from Sinitic languages
- Japanese adjectives
- Japanese terms derived from English
- Japanese terms derived from Latin
- Japanese prefixes
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese male given names
- Japanese terms written with one Han script character
- Japanese terms spelled with 聖
- Korean hanja
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