圣
聖Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc)
- 2.(bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc)
- 3.(bound form) holy; sacred
- 1.variant of 圣[shèng]
- 1.(literary) to dig with persistent effort (e.g. to gather wild vegetables)
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Wiktionary
- 1.to dig
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Etymology
Unorthodox variant of 聖 found in the Ming dynasty orthographic dictionaries 《俗書刊誤》 and 《字學三正》; this character originally meant "to dig", a concept represented by a hand over a lump of earth or clay.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
你在圣誕節去教堂嗎？
Do you go to church on Christmas Day?
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