祠
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shrine; to offer a sacrifice
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 示 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 祠
- Common rank
- #3,164
- Unicode
- U+7960
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Formation & memory
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Words with 祠
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 土谷祠 | temple dedicated to the local tutelary god 土地神[tu3 di4 shen2] and the god of cereals | |
| 生祠 | temple dedicated to sb still alive | |
| 神祠 | shrine | |
| 屈原祠 | Qu Yuan memorial temple on the Miluo river 汨羅江|汨罗江 at Yueyang 岳陽市|岳阳市, Hunan | |
| 武侯祠 | temple dedicated to the memory of Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮[Zhu1 ge3 Liang4] (There is one in Ch… | |
| 祠堂 | ancestral hall; memorial hall | |
| 宗祠 | ancestral temple; clan hall | |
| 祖祠 | shrine dedicated to one's ancestors | |
| 祠墓 | memorial hall and tomb | |
| 祠庙 | ancestral hall; temple to one's forebears |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 司 — compare how they read.