I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
圣人
sage
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
sage
02
the Sage (i.e. Confucius)
03
(old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagacious majesty
04
(religion) saint
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 圣人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 圣人 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 圣人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 圣人.
Directly before
- 跟圣人1
Directly after
- 圣人哭1
- 圣人将1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 圣人
What does 圣人 mean in Chinese?
圣人 (shèngrén) means sage.
How do you pronounce 圣人?
圣人 is pronounced shèngrén.
Is 圣人 an HSK word?
圣人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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