聖人

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

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): shèngrén

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥˋ ㄖㄣˊ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): шынжын (šɨnřɨn, III-I) / шынжын (šɨnřɨn, III-0)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing³ jan⁴
• Jin (Wiktionary): seng³ reng¹
• Min Dong (BUC): séng-ìng
• Min Nan (POJ): sèng-jîn / sèng-lîn
• Wu (Wiktionary): sen zen (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shèngrén → shèngren (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥˋ ㄖㄣˊ → ㄕㄥˋ ˙ㄖㄣ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shèngre̊n
    • Wade–Giles: shêng⁴-jên⁵
    • Yale: shèng-ren
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shenq.ren
    • Palladius: шэнжэнь (šɛnžɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/ → /ʂɤŋ⁵¹ ʐən¹/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: шынжын (šɨnřɨn, III-I) / шынжын (šɨnřɨn, III-0)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂəŋ⁴⁴ ʐəŋ²⁴/, /ʂəŋ⁴⁴ ʐəŋ⁰/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sing³ jan⁴
    • Yale: sing yàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing³ jan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xing³ yen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ³³ jɐn²¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: seng³ reng¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /sə̃ŋ⁴⁵ ʐə̃ŋ¹¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: séng-ìng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ^(Ø-)ŋiŋ⁵³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sèng-jîn
    • Tâi-lô: sìng-jîn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seangjiin
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɪŋ²¹⁻⁵³ d͡ʑin¹³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiɪŋ²¹⁻⁴¹ ʑin²³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sèng-lîn
    • Tâi-lô: sìng-lîn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seangliin
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiɪŋ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ lin²⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɪŋ¹¹⁻⁵³ lin²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiɪŋ²¹⁻⁵³ lin²⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: sen zen (T2)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /səɲ³³ z̥əɲ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɕiᴇŋ^H  ȵiɪn/

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
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/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ɛŋH/	/ȵʑi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shèng	rén
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sing3	jan4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥eŋ-s  ni[ŋ]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljeŋs  njin/

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[ŋ]/
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. *[t] 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

• (sage): 至人 (zhìrén)
• (saint): (Dungan) олия (olii͡a)

Derived terms

• 主保聖人／主保圣人 (zhǔbǎo shèngrén)
• 伏地聖人／伏地圣人
• 假聖人／假圣人 (jiǎshèngrén)

• 聖人也有三分錯／圣人也有三分错
• 聖人諱／圣人讳 (shèngrénhuì)

Proper noun

聖人

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

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (聖人):

• → Japanese: 聖(しょう)人(にん) (shōnin); 聖(せい)人(じん) (seijin)
• → Korean: 성인 (聖人, seong'in)
• → Vietnamese: thánh nhân (聖人)

See also

• 亞聖／亚圣 (yàshèng)

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

• Min Nan (POJ): siàⁿ-lâng

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• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siàⁿ-lâng
    • Tâi-lô: siànn-lâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sviarlaang
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiã²¹⁻⁵³ laŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiã⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ laŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiã²¹⁻⁵³ laŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiã¹¹⁻⁵³ laŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiã²¹⁻⁴¹ laŋ²³/

Noun

聖人

1. (Min Nan, euphemistic) dead person

   做聖人／做圣人 [Hokkien]  ―  chò siàⁿ-lâng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to die

Synonyms

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• 亡人 (wángrén) (literary)
• 亡者 (wángzhě) (literary)
• 往生者 (wǎngshēngzhě) (Buddhism, euphemism)
• 故人 (gùrén) (literary)
• 死人 (sǐrén)

• 死者 (sǐzhě)
• 逝者 (shìzhě) (literary)
• 瓜碼子／瓜码子 (Xiang)
• 聖人 (Min Nan, euphemism)

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Japanese

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.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しょ​ーにん [shóꜜònìǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɕo̞ːɲ̟ĩɴ]

• (Tokyo) せーじん [sèéjíń] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) せ​ーじん [séꜜèjìǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [se̞ːʑĩɴ]

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 [Jan 23 2008], Nakamura, Hikaru, “その３　もうひとつの楽園(パラダイス) [Chapter 3: Just Another Paradise]”, in 聖(セイント)☆おにいさん [Saint☆Young Men], volume 1 (fiction), 6th edition, 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

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Korean

Hanja in this term
聖	人

Noun

聖人 • (seong'in) (hangeul 성인)

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