庙 (miào): temple
庙 (miào) is a Chinese character meaning “temple.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 广 (structural) and 由 (structural). It ranks #1868 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 庙 a building 广 containing an altar 由. Its radical form 广 (shelter) appears in many related characters such as 床 (chuáng, bed), 店 (diàn, shop), 广 (guǎng, wide, broad).
Definitions
- temple
Etymology & Origin
ideographicA building 广 containing an altar 由
Decomposition: ⿸广由 (layout: surround-from-upper-left)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 寺庙 | sì miào | temple |
| 神庙 | shén miào | temple |
| 庙宇 | miào yǔ | temple |
| 宗庙 | zōng miào | temple |
| 庙会 | miào huì | temple fair |
| 圣庙 | shèng miào | shrine to a sage (esp. Confucius) |
| 庙堂 | miào táng | imperial ancestral temple |
| 跑了和尚跑不了庙 | pǎo le hé shàng pǎo bù liǎo miào | the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) |
| 大水冲了龙王庙 | dà shuǐ chōng le lóng wáng miào | lit. surging waters flooded the Dragon King temple (idiom) |
| 跑得了和尚，跑不了庙 | pǎo dé liǎo hé shàng , pǎo bù liǎo miào | the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) |
| 帕台农神庙 | pà tái nóng shén miào | Parthenon Temple on the Acropolis, Athens |
| 关庙 | guān miào | Guanmiao, a district in Tainan 台南|台南[Tai2 nan2], Taiwan |
| 庙主 | miào zhǔ | head priest of a temple |
| 宁拆十座庙，不毁一桩婚 | nìng chāi shí zuò miào , bù huǐ yī zhuāng hūn | rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom) |
| 伊瑞克提翁庙 | yī ruì kè tí wēng miào | the Erechteum, Athens |
庙 appears in 29 compound words: 28 as the first character, 69 as the last, and 3 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 庙 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
这座古庙有几百年的历史，是当地的重要文化遗产。
Zhè zuò gǔmiào yǒu jǐbǎi nián de lìshǐ, shì dāngdì de zhòngyào wénhuà yíchǎn.
This ancient temple has a history of several hundred years and is an important cultural heritage of the area.
高雄龙池宫庙埕“全是钱” 价值800万百龟供乞龟祈福
gāo xióng lóng chí gōng miào 埕 quán shì qián jià zhí 8 0 0 wàn bǎi guī gōng qǐ guī qí fú
Kaohsiung Longchi Palace Temple is "all money" worth 8 million turtles for begging turtles to pray for blessings
中国新春庙会走进比利时知名学府
zhōng guó xīn chūn miào huì zǒu jìn bǐ lì shí zhī míng xué fǔ
The Chinese New Year Temple Fair entered a well-known Belgian university
“老传统+新玩法+新科技” 传统庙会圈粉年轻人
lǎo chuán tǒng xīn wán fǎ xīn kē jì chuán tǒng miào huì juān fěn nián qīng rén
"Old tradition + new gameplay + new technology" Traditional temple fairs attract young people
...淀:春晚同款机器人返场,硬核科技“打开”庙会
. . . diàn : chūn wǎn tóng kuǎn jī qì rén fǎn chǎng , yìng hé kē jì dǎ kāi miào huì
... Dian: The same robot of the Spring Festival Gala returns, and hard-core technology "opens" the temple fair
中外交流|塞尔维亚举行系列新春庙会活动庆祝中国年
zhōng wài jiāo liú sāi ěr wéi yà jǔ háng xì liè xīn chūn miào huì huó dòng qìng zhù zhōng guó nián
Sino-Foreign Exchange|Serbia celebrates Chinese New Year with a series of Lunar New Year temple festivals
一个神圣的仪式在庄严的庙宇中举行。
Yī gè shénshèng de yíshì zài zhuāngyán de miàoyǔ zhōng jǔxíng.
A sacred ritual took place in the magnificent temple.
这个寺庙是何时造的？
Zhège sìmiào shì héshí zào de?
When was this temple built?
您知道这座庙宇供奉的是哪个神吗？
Nín zhīdào zhè zuò miàoyǔ gòngfèng de shì nǎge shén ma?
Do you know which deity this temple is dedicated to?
我的爱好是游览古老的庙宇。
Wǒ de àihào shì yóulǎn gǔlǎo de miàoyǔ.
My hobby is visiting old temples.
Character Family
广 Radical Family — Characters sharing the shelter radical
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