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Chinese
Pronunciation 1
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holy; sacred; saint holy; sacred; saint; sage
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man; person; people
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trad. (聖人)
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聖
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人
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simp. (圣人)
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圣
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人
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Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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聖
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人
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Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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shèng
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rén
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Middle Chinese
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‹ syengH ›
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‹ nyin ›
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Old Chinese
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/*l̥eŋ-s/
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/*ni/
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English
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sage (n.)
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(other) person
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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聖
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人
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Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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No.
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11391
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10800
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Phonetic component
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聖
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人
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Rime group
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耕
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眞
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Rime subdivision
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0
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1
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Corresponding MC rime
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聖
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仁
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Old Chinese
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/*hljeŋs/
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/*njin/
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Notes
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甲金文象人張耳對口會耳聰意, 非呈聲
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Noun
聖人
- sage; wise man
- (Christianity) saint
- (archaic) the Emperor
- (Buddhism) enlightened individual; Buddha; bodhisattva
Synonyms
- (sage): 至人 (zhìrén)
- (saint): (Dungan) олия (olii͡a)
Derived terms
Proper noun
聖人
- (honorific) Alternative name for 孔子 (Kǒngzǐ, “Confucius”).
Descendants
See also
Pronunciation 2
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holy; sacred; saint holy; sacred; saint; sage
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man; person; people
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trad. (聖人)
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聖
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人
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simp. (圣人)
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圣
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人
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alternative forms
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聖儂/圣侬
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Noun
聖人
- (Southern Min, euphemistic) dead person
- 做聖人/做圣人 [Hokkien] ― chò sèng-jîn [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― to die
Synonyms
- 亡人 (wángrén) (literary)
- 亡者 (wángzhě) (literary)
- 往生者 (wǎngshēngzhě) (Buddhism, euphemism)
- 故人 (gùrén) (literary)
- 死人 (sǐrén)
- 死者 (sǐzhě)
- 瓜碼子/瓜码子 (gua1 ma3 zr) (Xiang)
- 逝者 (shìzhě) (literary)
Japanese
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Etymology 1
From 聖 (shō, sei, “holy; sacred”) + 人 (nin, jin, “person”), from Chinese 聖人/圣人 (shèngrén).
Pronunciation
Noun
聖人 • (shōnin) ←しやうにん (syaunin)?
- (Buddhism) a term used to refer to Buddha or a bodhisattva
- (Buddhism) an enlightened Buddhist
(alternative reading hiragana せいじん, rōmaji seijin)
- a sage; a wise man
- a saint; a holy man
2008 July 16 [2008 January 23], Hikaru Nakamura, “その3 もうひとつの楽園”, in 聖☆おにいさん, 6th edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha:お客様 成人男性2名ですと8千円ですが……
あ じゃあ その——
聖人男性2枚で……- O-kyaku-sama seijin dansei ni-mei desu to hachisen-en desu ga……
A jā sono——
Seijin dansei ni-mai de…… - It would be 8,000 yen for 2 adult men, sirs……
Oh, in that case——
We’d like 2 holy man tickets, please……
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun
聖人 • (Masato)
- a male given name
References
Korean
Noun
聖人 • (seong'in) (hangeul 성인)
- Hanja form? of 성인 (“saint; holy man”).