Entry
  1. Noun

    highly virtuous monk

  2. monk

    Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

  3. Buddhist solitary

  4. Buddhist missionary

    see 高野聖

  5. saint (i.e. a virtuous person)

  6. emperor

    ArchaicHonorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

  7. master; expert

    in form 〜の聖

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

holy, saint, sage, master, priest

Kun
ひじり
On
セイショウ
Strokes
13
Taught
Grade 6
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1165 of 2500
Radical
ear
WaniKani
Level 34

Built from

Used in names as

きよさとさとしたかただひろまさ

Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
2-9-4SKIP code
4f9.9The Kanji Dictionary
1610.4Four corner code
3272deroo
8056Unicode hex code
1-32-27JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2960Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4727New Nelson (John Haig)
2830New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3509Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1812Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2464Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
825Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
888Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1306A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2030Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
663Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
29074PMorohashi
911A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
674Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
686Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
824sakade
1663Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
922henshall3
962Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
580Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1583Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
833Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
sheng4Pinyin reading
seongKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
34WaniKani level