祠 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

cí

ancestral temple

Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 司 represents the sound.

Components

礻 Meaning component

shì

show

礻 is a component form of 示.

司 Sound component

sī

take charge of

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

cí

ancestral temple; offer sacrifice; shrine; to offer a sacrifice

Most common words with 祠

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	祠	shrine
	祠堂	ancestral hall
	武侯祠	refers to tourist attraction in Chengdu 成都
	祠庙	ancestral hall
	土谷祠	local monastery

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*sə.lə	zi	cí	sacrifice

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3319th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	9
Unicode	U+7960
Shuowen	“祠，春祭曰祠，品物少，多文詞也。从示，司聲。仲春之月，祠不用犧牲，用圭璧及皮幣。”

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