圣
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(bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc); (bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc); (bound form) holy; sacred
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 土 +2
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 聖
- Common rank
- #358
- Unicode
- U+5723
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Formation & memory
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Words with 圣
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 文圣区 | Wensheng, a district of Liaoyang City 遼陽市|辽阳市[Liao2 yang2 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 主保圣人 | patron saint | |
| 圣德太子 | Prince Shōtoku Taiji (574-621), major Japanese statesman and reformer of the Asuka period … | |
| 圣子 | Holy Son; Jesus Christ; God the Son (in the Christian Trinity) | |
| 大圣 | great sage; mahatma; king; emperor; outstanding personage; Buddha | |
| 圣人 | sage; the Sage (i.e. Confucius); (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagac… | |
| 圣多美和普林西比 | São Tomé and Príncipe | |
| 圣水 | holy water | |
| 圣心 | Sacred Heart (Christian) | |
| 圣地 | holy land (of a religion); sacred place; shrine; holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc);… | |
| 圣多美 | Sao Tome, capital of Sao Tome and Principe | |
| 圣心节 | Feast of the Sacred Heart | |
| 圣化 | sanctify; sanctification; consecrate | |
| 圣经外传 | Apocrypha; biography external to the classics | |
| 圣上 | courtier's or minister's form of address for the current Emperor | |
| 圣手 | divine physician; sage doctor; highly skilled practitioner | |
| 圣体 | the Emperor's body; Jesus' body; communion wafer (in Christian mass) | |
| 圣体血 | the body and blood of Christ; Holy communion | |
| 圣体节 | Corpus Christi (Catholic festival on second Thursday after Whit Sunday) | |
| 面圣 | (old) to have an audience with the emperor |
Sound family
These characters use 圣 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圣 sound part | holy, sacred; sage, saint | |
| 柽 | willow, tamarisk | |
| 蛏 | razor clam |