聖人

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See also: 圣人

Chinese

Pronunciation 1

holy; sacred; saint
holy; sacred; saint; sage
 
 man; person; people
trad. (聖人) 聖 人
simp. (圣人) 圣 人
Rime
Character 聖 人
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 清 (121) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 式正切 如鄰切
Baxter syengH nyin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɕiᴇŋH/ /ȵiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɕiɛŋH/ /ȵin/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɕiæŋH/ /ȵʑjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɕiajŋH/ /ȵin/
Li
Rong 		/ɕiɛŋH/ /ȵiĕn/
Wang
Li 		/ɕĭɛŋH/ /ȵʑĭĕn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɕi̯ɛŋH/ /ȵʑi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shèng rén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sing3 jan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 聖 人
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shèng rén
Middle
Chinese 		‹ syengH › ‹ nyin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*l̥eŋ-s/ /*ni/
English sage (n.) (other) person

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 聖 人
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 11391 10800
Phonetic
component 		聖 人
Rime
group 		耕 眞
Rime
subdivision 		0 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		聖 仁
Old
Chinese 		/*hljeŋs/ /*njin/
Notes 甲金文象人張耳對口會耳聰意，
非呈聲

Noun

聖人

  1. sage; wise man
  2. (Christianity) saint
  3. (archaic) the Emperor
  4. (Buddhism) enlightened individual; Buddha; bodhisattva
Synonyms
Derived terms

Proper noun

聖人

  1. (honorific) Alternative name for 孔子 (Kǒngzǐ, “Confucius”).

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (聖人):

See also

Pronunciation 2

holy; sacred; saint
holy; sacred; saint; sage
 
 man; person; people
trad. (聖人) 聖 人
simp. (圣人) 圣 人
alternative forms 聖儂／圣侬

Noun

聖人

  1. (Southern Min, euphemistic) dead person
    做聖人／做圣人 [Hokkien]  ―  chò sèng-jîn [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to die
Synonyms

Japanese

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Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
聖 人
せい
Grade: 6 		じん
Grade: 1
kan'on
Kanji in this term
聖 人
しょう
Grade: 6 		にん
Grade: 1
goon

From 聖 (shō, sei, “holy; sacred”) +‎ 人 (nin, jin, “person”), from Chinese 聖人／圣人 (shèngrén).

Pronunciation

Noun

聖(しょう)人(にん) • (shōnin) ←しやうにん (syaunin)?

  1. (Buddhism) a term used to refer to Buddha or a bodhisattva
  2. (Buddhism) an enlightened Buddhist

(alternative reading hiragana せいじん, rōmaji seijin)

  1. a sage; a wise man
  2. a saint; a holy man
    • 2008 July 16 [2008 January 23], Hikaru Nakamura, “その３　もうひとつの楽園(パラダイス)”, in 聖(セイント)☆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(seijin), sirs……
      Oh, in that case——
      We’d like 2 holy man(seijin) tickets, please……

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
聖 人
まさ
Grade: 6 		と
Grade: 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

聖(まさ)人(と) • (Masato) 

  1. a male given name

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
聖人

Noun

聖人 • (seong'in) (hangeul 성인)

  1. hanja form? of 성인 (“saint; holy man”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
聖人

Noun

聖人

  1. chữ Hán form of thánh nhân (“sage”).
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