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庙

miào

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character Traditional 廟 Measure word 座

庙 (miào) means "temple; ancestral shrine; temple fair". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 庙 means

1. temple
2. ancestral shrine
3. temple fair
4. great imperial hall
5. imperial

Example sentences

• 摧毁这个寺庙。
  Destroy this temple.
• 京都以古庙有名。
  Kyoto is famous for its old temples.
• 我们也去了庙里。
  We also went to the temple.
• 这里以前是座旧庙。
  There used to be an old temple here.
• 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?

Words starting with 庙

• 庙宇miào yǔtemple
• 庙会miào huìtemple fair
• 庙堂miào tángimperial ancestral temple; imperial court; temple
• 庙主miào zhǔhead priest of a temple
• 庙口Miào kǒuMiaokou, market district in Keelung, Taiwan
• 庙塔miào tǎtemples and pagodas
• 庙祝miào zhùacolyte in charge of incense in a temple
• 庙号miào hàotemple name of a deceased Chinese emperor

Words containing 庙

• 寺庙sì miàotemple; monastery; shrine
• 神庙shén miàotemple
• 孔庙Kǒng miàoConfucian temple
• 宗庙zōng miàotemple; ancestral shrine
• 廊庙láng miàoimperial court
• 圣庙shèng miàoshrine to a sage (esp. Confucius)
• 关庙Guān miàoGuanmiao, a district in Tainan 台南
• 娘娘庙Niáng niáng miàotemple of Goddess of Fertility
• 帕台农神庙Pà tái nóng Shén miàoParthenon Temple on the Acropolis, Athens
• 帕德嫩神庙Pà dé nèn Shén miàoParthenon Temple on the Acropolis, Athens (Tw)
• 伊瑞克提翁庙Yī ruì kè tí wēng miàothe Erechteum, Athens
• 喇嘛庙lǎ ma miàolamasery; temple of Tibetan Buddhism
• 帕提侬神庙pà tí nóng shén miàothe Parthenon, Athens
• 琉璃庙Liú lí miàoLiulimiao town in Beijing municipality
• 曲阜孔庙Qū fù Kǒng miàotemple to Confucius in his hometown Qufu
• 岱庙Dài miàoDai Temple, a temple in Shandong for the god of Mount Tai
• 祠庙cí miàoancestral hall; temple to one's forebears
• 大水冲了龙王庙dà shuǐ chōng le Lóng wáng miàolit. surging waters flooded the Dragon King temple (idiom)…
• 跑了和尚跑不了庙pǎo le hé shàng pǎo bù liǎo miàothe monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom)…
• 宁拆十座庙，不毁一桩婚nìng chāi shí zuò miào , bù huǐ yī zhuāng hūnrather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom)
• 跑得了和尚，跑不了庙pǎo dé liǎo hé shàng , pǎo bù liǎo miàothe monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom)…

Characters that look like 庙

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

• 店diàninn; old-style hotel; (bound form) shop; store
• 届jièto arrive at (place or time); period; to become due
• 层céngto pile on top of one another; layer; stratum; floor (of a building); story
• 库kùwarehouse; storehouse; (file) library
• 屎shǐfeces; excrement; a stool; (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)
• 屉tìdrawer; tier; tray

Sounds the same

Read miào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 妙clever; wonderful
• 缪surname Miao
• 庿variant of 庙

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read miào correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.