聖句

Japanese

Kanji in this term
聖	句
せい Grade: 6	く Grade: 5
on'yomi

Etymology

Probably from Middle Chinese 聖句 (MC syengH kjuH, literally “holy, sacred + sentences, phrases”).

Noun

聖(せい)句(く) • (seiku) 

1. a holy or sacred text
2. (Christianity) Scripture, a passage of Scripture
3. (figurative) a bible for something

   70年(ななじゅうねん)代(だい)ではあの本(ほん)はサラリーマンの聖(せい)句(く)でした。

   Nanajū nendai de wa ano hon wa sararīman no seiku deshita.

   During the 70s, that book was the salaryman's bible.

References

• Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN