圣
shèng
#958 most
frequent character
old variant of 聖|圣[sheng4]
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.
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