Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- 圣洁
- Transliteration
- shèngjié
- Rejected alternatives
- 清净, 圣人般的
Holy
圣洁 = set apart for God and morally pure. Avoid 清净 (qīngjìng), a Daoist/Buddhist term for ritual or meditative purity/stillness achieved through practice. Avoid glossing as ‘sage-like’ (圣人般的) — see 成圣/sanctification note on Neo-Confucian self-cultivation.