聖
shèng

sage, holy

圣 (聖) shèng
holy noun
holy, sacred, or divine

奥运圣火已经在体育场的主火炬台点燃。

ào​yùn shèng huǒ yǐ​jīng zài tǐ​yù​chǎng de zhǔ huǒ​jù​tái diǎn​rán.

The Olympic flame has been lit in the stadium's main cauldron.

peerless adjective
unsurpassed in wisdom, moral virtue, or skill

这位艺术大师的绘画造诣已经达到了入圣的境界。

zhè wèi yì​shù dà​shī de huì​huà zào​yì yǐ​jīng dá​dào le rù shèng de jìng​jiè.

This master artist's painting skills have reached a divine level of perfection.

sage noun
a peerless individual, paragon, or master of a skill

杜甫被后人尊称为“诗圣”。

Dù Fǔ bèi hòu​rén zūn​chēng wéi“ shī shèng”.

Du Fu is honored by later generations as the 'Sage of Poetry.'

Frequency
Character
Written text
960th most common 173.7 per million
Movie subtitles
541st most common 259.9 per million appears in 46% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
66.6 per million appears in 15% of films
Written text
41.4 per million

Details
Simplified
圣
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+8056

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)