靈聖

Chinese

		alert; departed soul; efficacious alert; departed soul; efficacious; quick; effective; intelligence	holy; sacred; saint holy; sacred; saint; sage
trad. (靈聖)		靈	聖
simp. (灵圣)		灵	圣
alternative forms		灵聖 靈詳／灵详 Hokkien
anagram		聖靈／圣灵

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): língshèng

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥˋ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lêng-siàⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: língshèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: língshèng
    • Wade–Giles: ling²-shêng⁴
    • Yale: líng-shèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lingshenq
    • Palladius: линшэн (linšɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liŋ³⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lêng-siàⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: lîng-siànn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lengsviax
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² siã²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² siã⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪŋ¹³⁻²² siã²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ siã¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɪŋ²³⁻³³ siã²¹/

Noun

靈聖

1. (literary) supernatural vision

Adjective

靈聖

1. (archaic or Hokkien) effective; efficacious
   • 2018, “一人一款命”, 梁志强 [Jack Neo] (lyrics), 邓碧源 [Deng Bi Yuan] and 梁志强 [Jack Neo] (music)‎^[1]performed by 宏扬 [Jayden Chew]:

     搁是勤力打拼尚灵详 [Hokkien, simp.]
     擱是勤力打拼尚靈詳 [Hokkien, trad.]

     koh sī kut-la̍t phah-piàⁿ siōng lêng-siàⁿ [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

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
	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
	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