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廟

miào

temple

Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 朝 represents the sound.

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎn, guǎng

  

roof

朝 sound component

朝  Sound component

cháo, zhāo

  

dynasty

Evolution

廟 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
廟 Regular script Modern

Regular 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 廟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

庙

temple

寺庙

temple

神庙

temple (nonspecific)

庙会

temple fair

庙宇

temple

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[m]raw-s

mjewH

miào

a kind of building with side rooms


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

15

Simplified

庙

Unicode

U+5EDF

Shuowen

“廟，尊先祖皃也。从广，朝聲。庿，古文。”


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