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

  (Pinyin): língguāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄍㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ling⁴ gwong¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lêng-kong
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶lin-kuaon

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• 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/
• 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/
• 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/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶lin-kuaon
    • MiniDict: lin^去 kuaon
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³lin-kuaan
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lin²² kuɑ̃⁴⁴/

Noun

靈光

1. divine light; divine radiance; numinous light

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

1. (Central Plains, Lanyin and Southwestern Mandarin, Wu) clever; quick-witted
2. (Southwestern Mandarin, Wu, of a method) effective; good
3. (Wu, of a prediction) accurate; correct

Synonyms

• (clever):

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• 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 edit
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