Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

祠堂

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads

Chinese

More information ancestral hall; temple, (main) hall; large room ...

Pronunciation



More information Rime, Character ...
More information Character, Reading # ...
More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Noun

祠堂

  1. ancestral shrine; ancestral hall; ancestral temple; lineage temple
  2. (Cantonese, slang) male genitals; penis
  3. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) prison

Synonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (祠堂):
  • Japanese: ()(どう) (shidō)
  • Korean: 사당(祠堂) (sadang)
  • Vietnamese: từ đường (祠堂)

References

  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “1511 祠堂”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 440.
Remove ads

Japanese

Korean

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads