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寺

sì

HSK 6 Character

What 寺 means

1. Buddhist temple
2. mosque
3. government office (old)

Example sentences

• 摧毁这个寺庙。
  Destroy this temple.
• 我曾住在高圆寺。
  I lived in Kouenji.
• 这辆车去静安寺吗？
  Does this car go to Jingan temple?
• 汤姆被赶出寺庙了。
  Tom was driven out of the temple.
• 这个寺庙是何时造的？
  Zhège sìmiào shì héshí zào de?
  When was this temple built?
• 他一天去五次清真寺。
  He goes to the mosque five times a day.

Words starting with 寺

• 寺庙sì miàotemple; monastery; shrine
• 寺院sì yuàncloister; temple; monastery

Words containing 寺

• 清真寺qīng zhēn sìmosque
• 少林寺Shào lín SìShaolin Temple, Buddhist monastery famous for its kung fu monks
• 大昭寺Dà zhāo sìJokhang, main Buddhist temple in Lhasa, a sacred place of Tibetan Buddhism
• 佛寺Fó sìBuddhist temple
• 塔尔寺Tǎ ěr sìKumbum Monastery in Qinghai
• 塔公寺Tǎ gōng sìLhagang temple in Dartsendo county 康定县
• 大寺院dà sì yuànabbey; large monastery
• 大理寺Dà lǐ sìImperial Court of Judicial Review
• 夹山寺Jiā shān sìJiashan Temple, Buddhist temple in Shimen county 石门县
• 惠远寺Huì yuǎn sìHuiyuan Monastery in Dawu County 道孚县
• 慈照寺Cí zhào sìJishōji in northeast Kyōto 京都, Japan, the official name of Ginkakuji or Silver pavilion…
• 法源寺Fǎ yuán sìFayuan or Source of the Law temple in Beijing
• 法隆寺Fǎ lōng sìHōryūji, complex of Buddhist temples near Nara 奈良, Japan, dating back to the Asuka period…
• 海印寺Hǎi yìn sìHaein Temple in South Gyeongsang province of South Korea, the repository of Tripitaka…
• 清水寺Qīng shuǐ sìKiyomizu temple in east Kyōto 京都, Japan
• 白塔寺Bái tǎ sìBaita temple in Lanzhou 兰州
• 白马寺Bái mǎ Sìthe Baima or White Horse Temple in Luoyang, one of the earliest Buddhist temples in China
• 色拉寺Sè lā sìSera monastery near Lhasa, Tibet
• 荷泽寺Hé zé sìHeze temple in Fuzhou, Fujian
• 金山寺jīn shān sìJinshan Temple, where Fahai lives (from Madam White Snake)
• 金阁寺Jīn gé sìKinkakuji or Golden pavilion in northwest Kyōto 京都, Japan…
• 银阁寺Yín gé sìGinkaku-ji or Silver Pavilion in Kyoto 京都
• 灵谷寺Líng gǔ sìLinggu temple (Nanjing)
• 龙安寺Lóng ān sìRyōanji, temple in northwest Kyōto 京都, Japan with famous rock garden

Characters built on 土

These share the phonetic component 土 (tǔ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 地dìearth; ground; field
• 里lǐlining; interior; inside
• 基jī(bound form) base; foundation; (bound form) radical (chemistry)…
• 至zhìto arrive; most; to
• 址zhǐ(bound form) site; location
• 壁bìwall; rampart
• 赤chìred; scarlet; bare
• 圾jīused in 垃圾; Taiwan pr. sè

Characters that look like 寺

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 考kǎoto beat; to hit; variant of 考
• 希xīto hope; to admire; variant of 稀
• 老lǎoprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of…
• 寿shòulong life; old age; age
• 串chuànto string together; to skewer; to connect wrongly
• 孛bèicomet

Sounds the same

Read sì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 四four; 4
• 似to seem; to appear; to resemble
• 肆four (banker's anti-fraud numeral); unrestrained; wanton
• 饲to raise; to rear; to feed
• 巳6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake…
• 嗣succession (to a title); to inherit; continuing (a tradition)
• 食to feed (a person or animal)
• 伺to watch; to wait; to examine
• 祀to sacrifice; to offer libation to
• 泗nasal mucus
• 厕used in 茅厕
• 姒wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old); elder sister (old)