Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- 聖靈
- Transliteration
- sing3 ling4
- Rejected alternatives
- 問米嘅靈, 祖先靈
Holy Spirit
CRITICAL: always use the compound 聖靈; NEVER use 靈 alone, which in Hong Kong folk usage covers ancestral spirits, temple spirits, and the spirits summoned in 問米 mediumship. 聖靈 is the personal third Person of the Trinity, not one spirit-being among the folk-religious spirit world Hong Kong culture actively engages through mediums and ancestral rites.