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寺庙

sì miào

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 寺廟

寺庙 (sì miào) means "temple; monastery; shrine". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 寺庙 means

1. temple
2. monastery
3. shrine

The characters in 寺庙

• 寺sìBuddhist temple; mosque; government office (old)
• 庙miàotemple; ancestral shrine; temple fair

Example sentences

• 摧毁这个寺庙。
  Destroy this 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?
• 这座寺庙是何时建的呢？
  When was this temple built?
• 让我们明天参观一些寺庙。
  Ràng wǒmen míngtiān cānguān yīxiē sìmiào.
  Let's visit some temples tomorrow.
• 让我们明天叁观一些寺庙。
  Let's visit some temples tomorrow.

Where 寺庙 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Buildings, Dormitories & Sacred Spaces (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read sì miào correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.