靈光

Chinese

		alert; departed soul; efficacious alert; departed soul; efficacious; quick; effective; intelligence	light; ray; bright
trad. (靈光)		靈	光
simp. (灵光)		灵	光

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): língguāng

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄍㄨㄤ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ling⁴ gwong¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lêng-kong
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶lin-kuaon

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: língguāng
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄍㄨㄤ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: língguang
  - Wade–Giles: ling²-kuang¹
  - Yale: líng-gwāng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lingguang
  - Palladius: лингуан (linguan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /liŋ³⁵ ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ling⁴ gwong¹
  - Yale: lìhng gwōng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ling⁴ gwong¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ling⁴ guong¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɪŋ²¹ kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lêng-kong
  - Tâi-lô: lîng-kong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lengkofng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² kɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² kɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪŋ¹³⁻²² kɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɪŋ²³⁻³³ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶lin-kuaon
  - MiniDict: lin^去 kuaon
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³lin-kuaan
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lin²² kuɑ̃⁴⁴/

Noun

靈光

divine light; divine radiance; numinous light

Derived terms

Adjective

靈光

(Central Plains, Lanyin and Southwestern Mandarin, Wu) clever; quick-witted
(Southwestern Mandarin, Wu, of a method) effective; good
(Wu, of a prediction) accurate; correct

Synonyms

(clever):

乖巧 (guāiqiǎo)
了了 (liǎoliǎo) (literary)
伶俐 (línglì)
奢遮 (Wu, of a child)
宿鬼 (Hokkien)
性靈／性灵 (xìnglíng) (literary)
敏慧 (mǐnhuì)
明慧 (mínghuì)
明智 (míngzhì)
機敏／机敏 (jīmǐn)
機智／机智 (jīzhì)
機穎／机颖 (literary)
機警／机警 (jījǐng)
機靈／机灵
活絡／活络 (Wu)
睿智 (ruìzhì)
穎異／颖异 (yǐngyì) (formal)
精濟／精济 (Hokkien, of a child)
精靈／精灵 (jīnglíng)
精齊／精齐 (Hokkien, of a child)
聰慧／聪慧 (cōnghuì)
聰敏／聪敏 (cōngmǐn)
聰明／聪明 (cōngmíng)
聰穎／聪颖 (cōngyǐng) (formal)
英明 (yīngmíng)
調皮／调皮 (tiáopí)
靈／灵 (líng)
鬼 (guǐ) (informal)

(effective):

Dialectal synonyms of 靈驗 (“effective; efficacious”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		靈
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		靈驗, 靈
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	靈驗
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	靈
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	靈, 靈應
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	靈, 靈光
Cantonese	Guangzhou	靈擎
	Hong Kong	靈, 靈擎
	Taishan	靈
	Dongguan	靈擎
Gan	Lichuan	靈
Gan	Pingxiang	靈
Hakka	Meixian	靈擎, 靈驗
Huizhou	Jixi	靈, 靈光
Northern Min	Jian'ou	靈感, 靈
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	靈, 靈影
Southern Min	Xiamen	靈聖
	Quanzhou	靈聖
	Zhangzhou	靈聖
	Tainan	靈聖
	Singapore (Hokkien)	靈
	Shantou	靈驗, 靈
	Leizhou	靈
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	靈
Wu	Shanghai	靈, 靈光, 靈泛
	Shanghai (Chongming)	靈
	Suzhou	靈
	Danyang	靈光
	Hangzhou	靈
	Ningbo	靈
	Wenzhou	靈, 靈光

Derived terms

不靈光／不灵光

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