靈光
Chinese
alert; departed soul; efficacious alert; departed soul; efficacious; quick; effective; intelligence |
light; ray; bright | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (靈光) | 靈 | 光 | |
| simp. (灵光) | 灵 | 光 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): ling4 gwong1
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lêng-kong
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 6lin-kuaon
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: língguāng
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄍㄨㄤ
- Tongyong Pinyin: língguang
- Wade–Giles: ling2-kuang1
- Yale: líng-gwāng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lingguang
- Palladius: лингуан (linguan)
- Sinological IPA (key): /liŋ³⁵ ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: ling4 gwong1
- Yale: lìhng gwōng
- Cantonese Pinyin: ling4 gwong1
- Guangdong Romanization: ling4 guong1
- Sinological IPA (key): /lɪŋ²¹ kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lêng-kong
- Tâi-lô: lîng-kong
- Phofsit Daibuun: lengkofng
- IPA (Xiamen): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² kɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² kɔŋ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪŋ¹³⁻²² kɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɪŋ²³⁻³³ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
Noun
靈光
Derived terms
- 靈光一閃 / 灵光一闪
- 靈光殿 / 灵光殿
- 魯殿靈光 / 鲁殿灵光
- 魯靈光 / 鲁灵光
Adjective
靈光
- (Central Plains, Lanyin and Southwestern Mandarin, Wu) clever; quick-witted
- (Southwestern Mandarin, Wu, of a method) effective; good
- (Wu, of a prediction) accurate; correct
Synonyms
- (clever):
- 乖巧 (guāiqiǎo)
- 了了 (liǎoliǎo) (literary)
- 伶俐 (línglì)
- 儇 (Wu, of a child)
- 奢遮 (Wu, of a child)
- 宿鬼 (Hokkien)
- 性靈 / 性灵 (xìnglíng) (literary)
- 敏慧 (mǐnhuì)
- 明慧 (mínghuì)
- 明智 (míngzhì)
- 機敏 / 机敏 (jīmǐn)
- 機智 / 机智 (jīzhì)
- 機穎 / 机颖 (literary)
- 機警 / 机警 (jījǐng)
- 機靈 / 机灵
- 活絡 / 活络 (Wu)
- 睿智 (ruìzhì)
- 穎異 / 颖异 (yǐngyì) (formal)
- 精濟 / 精济 (Hokkien, of a child)
- 精靈 / 精灵 (jīnglíng)
- 精齊 / 精齐 (Hokkien, of a child)
- 聰慧 / 聪慧 (cōnghuì)
- 聰敏 / 聪敏 (cōngmǐn)
- 聰明 / 聪明 (cōngmíng)
- 聰穎 / 聪颖 (cōngyǐng) (formal)
- 英明 (yīngmíng)
- 調皮 / 调皮 (tiáopí)
- 靈 / 灵 (líng)
- 鬼 (guǐ) (informal)
- (effective):
Dialectal synonyms of 靈驗 (“effective; efficacious”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Classical Chinese | 靈 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 靈驗, 靈 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 靈驗 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 靈 |
| Xi'an | 靈, 靈應 | |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 靈, 靈光 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 靈擎 |
| Hong Kong | 靈, 靈擎 | |
| Taishan | 靈 | |
| Dongguan | 靈擎 | |
| Gan | Lichuan | 靈 |
| Pingxiang | 靈 | |
| Hakka | Meixian | 靈擎, 靈驗 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 靈, 靈光 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 靈感, 靈 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 靈, 靈影 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 靈聖 |
| Quanzhou | 靈聖 | |
| Zhangzhou | 靈聖 | |
| Tainan | 靈聖 | |
| Singapore (Hokkien) | 靈 | |
| Shantou | 靈驗, 靈 | |
| Leizhou | 靈 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 靈 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 靈, 靈光, 靈泛 |
| Shanghai (Chongming) | 靈 | |
| Suzhou | 靈 | |
| Danyang | 靈光 | |
| Hangzhou | 靈 | |
| Ningbo | 靈 | |
| Wenzhou | 靈, 靈光 | |
Derived terms
- 不靈光 / 不灵光