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庙

miào

temple

Simplified form of 廟. Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 朝 represents the sound.

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎn, guǎng

  

roof

由 simplified component

由  Simplified component

yóu

  

cause

Shorthand for the 朝 component in the traditional character 廟.

Evolution

庙 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
庙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
庙 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
庙 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
庙 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

庙 (廟) 

miào

temple, shrine; imperial court; temple; ancestral shrine; CL:座[zuò]; temple fair; great imperial hall; imperial

Most common words with 庙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

庙

temple

寺庙

temple

神庙

temple (nonspecific)

庙会

temple fair

庙宇

temple

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.4027% of movies

2657th most common character in movies

1889th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

廟

Unicode

U+5E99


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