圣

kū
#958 most
frequent character
to dig

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

圣 puts hand 又 with dirt 土, giving the first meaning of working the soil. The sense 'sage' was borrowed for its sound, not from the picture. From there came saint and holy; 圣 is also the simplified form of 聖.

圣 as a component in other characters

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Same Characters, Different Readings

圣shèng
old variant of 聖|圣[sheng4]
圣shèng
(bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc)

Homophones

HSK 3
哭kū
to cry, to weep

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