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HSK
Christmas time / Christmas season / Christmas
HSK 6
a sage / wise and holy man / virtuous ruler / Buddhist lama / wine
HSK 7-9
Christmas / birthday of reigning Emperor / Confucius' birthday
(Tw) San Diego, California / Santiago, capital of Chile
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Holy Grail
the Emperor's body / Jesus' body / communion wafer (in Christian mass)
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  *聖* | 聖* | *聖
(bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc) / (bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc) / (bound form) holy; sacred
Saint Lucia
the current imperial dynasty / one's own court
Whitsuntide
Saint Patrick
Saint Catherine
holy book
sage / the Sage (i.e. Confucius) / (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagacious majesty / (religion) saint
Saint Helena
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  *圣* | 圣* | *圣
to dig
the Virgin Mary
goddess
enlightened sage / brilliant master (flattering words applied to ruler)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Tw)
holy land (of a religion) / sacred place / shrine / holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc) / center of historic interest
feudal term of praise for ruler, king or emperor / general term for saint in former times / term for God during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 太平天國|太平天国 / Holy Spirit (in Christian Trinity)
the Confucian classics / (Christianity, Judaism) the holy scriptures / CL: ,
pure and holy
sage
(Tw) Mount Everest
poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima)
Holy war / jihad
St Paul / São Paulo, city in Brazil
hymn
sacred fire; (esp.) the Olympic flame
Saint John
Holy Grail
Father Christmas; Santa Claus
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Santiago, capital of Chile / San Diego, California
holy water
(Tw) San Jose
Joan of Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English
Christmas card
Sao Tome, capital of Sao Tome and Principe
supreme goodness / (respectful term for sb's mother)
Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic
São Tomé and Príncipe
St John's, capital of Labrador and Newfoundland province, Canada
San Salvador, capital of El Salvador
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
sanctify / sanctification / consecrate
imperial edict / see also 上諭|上谕
Saint Petersburg (city in Russia)
sage's instructions / imperial edict
(old) image of Confucius / holy image (of Buddha or Jesus Christ etc)
Christmas Island, Australia
San Marino
sage
St Denis or St Dennis
hymn
Sacred Heart (Christian)
sage hero / refers to Mahatma Gandhi
imperial edict
(Tw) Santo Domingo, capital of Dominican Republic
holy relic / miracle
shrine to a sage (esp. Confucius)
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  *圣* | 圣* | *圣
old variant of 聖|圣
courtier's or minister's form of address for the current Emperor
the Emperor's body / Holy body / the current reigning Emperor
lit. holy scripture and biography of sage (idiom); refers to Confucian canonical texts
senior monk
Holy Communion; Eucharist
Holy Son / Jesus Christ / God the Son (in the Christian Trinity)
temple
San Jose
sundae (loanword)
Merry Christmas
holy one / saint
sacred writing / canon
sage ruler
saint
priesthood
St Helena
Santa hat
Holy Father / God the Father (in the Christian Trinity)
poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima)
Prince Shōtoku Taiji (574-621), major Japanese statesman and reformer of the Asuka period 飛鳥時代|飞鸟时代, proponent of state Buddhism, portrayed as Buddhist saint
Mary (mother of Jesus)
San Antonio, Texas
Church of Our Lady / Frauenkirche
St Louis, large city in eastern Missouri
covenant
Santa Fe
Pentecost
El Niño (meteorology) / Holy Infant (Christianity)
Holy sacrament / Christian rite (esp. Protestant) / also called 聖事|圣事 by Catholics
Christmas eve
Holy sacrament / Christian rite (esp. Catholic) / also called 聖禮|圣礼 by Protestants
Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Christian festival on 15th August)
Whit Sunday (Christian Festival celebrating the Holy Spirit)
Holy City
cherry tomato

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