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
5 strokes
Dict coverage rank #358 U+5723
How 圣 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Simplified form of 聖; a king 王 of listening 耳 and speaking口
How to remember it
holy · Heisig RSH #634
right hand + 土 soil
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 圣 as their sound component
These characters all use 圣 (shèng) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圣 sound component | shèng | holy, sacred; sage, saint |
| 柽 | chēng | willow, tamarisk |
| 蛏 | chēng | razor clam |
Words containing 圣
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 文圣区 | Wén shèng Qū | Wensheng, a district of Liaoyang City 遼陽市|辽阳市[Liao2 yang2 Shi4], Liaoning |
| 主保圣人 | zhǔ bǎo shèng rén | patron saint |
| 圣德太子 | Shèng dé Tài zǐ | Prince Shōtoku Taiji (574-621), major Japanese statesman and reformer of the Asuka period … |
| 圣子 | Shèng zǐ | Holy Son; Jesus Christ; God the Son (in the Christian Trinity) |
| 大圣 | dà shèng | great sage; mahatma; king; emperor; outstanding personage; Buddha |
| 圣人 | shèng rén | sage; the Sage (i.e. Confucius); (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagac… |
| 圣多美和普林西比 | Shèng duō měi hé Pǔ lín xī bǐ | São Tomé and Príncipe |
| 圣水 | shèng shuǐ | holy water |
| 圣心 | shèng xīn | Sacred Heart (Christian) |
| 圣地 | shèng dì | holy land (of a religion); sacred place; shrine; holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc);… |
| 圣多美 | Shèng duō měi | Sao Tome, capital of Sao Tome and Principe |
| 圣心节 | shèng xīn jié | Feast of the Sacred Heart |
| 圣化 | shèng huà | sanctify; sanctification; consecrate |
| 圣经外传 | Shèng jīng Wài zhuàn | Apocrypha; biography external to the classics |
| 圣上 | shèng shàng | courtier's or minister's form of address for the current Emperor |
| 圣手 | shèng shǒu | divine physician; sage doctor; highly skilled practitioner |
| 圣体 | shèng tǐ | the Emperor's body; Jesus' body; communion wafer (in Christian mass) |
| 圣体血 | shèng tǐ xuè | the body and blood of Christ; Holy communion |
| 圣体节 | Shèng tǐ jié | Corpus Christi (Catholic festival on second Thursday after Whit Sunday) |
| 面圣 | miàn shèng | (old) to have an audience with the emperor |