圣

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

圣 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 水土 (EG), four-corner 1710₄, composition ⿱又土)

Derived characters

• 怪, 𡌪 (Used as phonetic component)
• 柽, 蛏 (Simplified Chinese characters with 聖 component simplified to 圣)
• 径, 経, 軽, 茎 (Japanese shinjitai characters with 巠 component simplified to 圣)
• 𠱅, 𢫞, 𣲾, 㹩, 𫔽, 𦙾, 䇈, 𫒔, 𭭬, 壡, 𠡍, 頚, 𫞬

Related characters

• 聖 (Orthodox traditional form of 圣)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 223, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4873
• Dae Jaweon: page 455, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 417, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5723

Chinese

Etymology 1

Glyph origin

Unorthodox variant of 聖 found in the Ming dynasty orthographic dictionaries 《俗書刊誤》 and 《字學三正》.

Definitions

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C01605#34

Etymology 2

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 圣
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

Shuowen Jiezi: Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 又 + 土.

Pronunciation

Definitions

圣

1. ^† to dig

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C01605

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Alternative form of 聖.
2. Alternative form of 経.

Readings

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)^{←きやう (kyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: けい (kei)

Usage notes

• This character does not appear to be used in modern Japanese. However, it may be found as a simplified component of 巠 in Japanese shinjitai (eg. in 經 → 経).

Noun

圣(けい) • (kei) 

1. (Kumamoto, in parking spaces) Abbreviation of 軽, referring to 軽自動車.

References

Vietnamese

Han character

圣: Hán Việt readings: thánh
圣: Nôm readings: thánh

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References

• Nom Foundation