Taxonomy of meanings for 聖人:　　

  • YOU
    • NP[post=npro_2]honorific: you, a sage
  • HERO
    • NP[=NPpr]definitethe sage FAYAN 21.1 聖人之術 "the art of the Sage (i.e. Confucius)" (with tensed predicate)
    • NPnonreferentiala sage; the person of extraordinary and creative talent (with untensed predicate)
    • NPplural, definitethe sages (of antiquity) (enumerable, with tensed predicate)
    • NPindefinitea sage; any sage (with tensed predicate)
    • NP{PRED}be a sage (not: be THE sage) (tensed)
    • NPpost-Nsuperlativethe greatest sage in N
    • NPindefinitesome sages (with tensed predicate)
    • NPpost-V{NUM}sages
    • NPironicthe so-called "sage"CH
    • NP[=Npr]Confucius, the sageCH
    • NPabbecoming/being a sage, "sageliness"LZ