庙
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temple; ancestral shrine; CL:座[zuo4]; temple fair; great imperial hall; imperial
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 广 +5
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 庙
- Common rank
- #2,014
- Unicode
- U+5E99
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Words with 庙
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大水冲了龙王庙 | lit. surging waters flooded the Dragon King temple (idiom); fig. to fail to recognize a fa… | |
| 跑得了和尚，跑不了庙 | the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom); you can run this time, b… | |
| 跑了和尚跑不了庙 | the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom); you can run this time, b… | |
| 帕台农神庙 | Parthenon Temple on the Acropolis, Athens | |
| 宁拆十座庙，不毁一桩婚 | rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom) | |
| 伊瑞克提翁庙 | the Erechteum, Athens | |
| 庙会 | temple fair | |
| 庙口 | Miaokou, market district in Keelung, Taiwan | |
| 庙主 | head priest of a temple | |
| 神庙 | temple | |
| 关庙 | Guanmiao, a district in Tainan 台南|台南[Tai2 nan2], Taiwan | |
| 庙号 | temple name of a deceased Chinese emperor | |
| 帕德嫩神庙 | Parthenon Temple on the Acropolis, Athens (Tw) | |
| 庙塔 | temples and pagodas | |
| 圣庙 | shrine to a sage (esp. Confucius) | |
| 庙堂 | imperial ancestral temple; imperial court; temple | |
| 曲阜孔庙 | temple to Confucius in his hometown Qufu | |
| 宗庙 | temple; ancestral shrine | |
| 孔庙 | Confucian temple | |
| 娘娘庙 | temple of Goddess of Fertility |