Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 廟

Modern (Beijing) reading: miào

Preclassic Old Chinese: mraw(ʔ)s

Classic Old Chinese: mrawh

Western Han Chinese: mrawh

Eastern Han Chinese: mrawh

Early Postclassic Chinese: mèw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mèw

Late Postclassic Chinese: mèw

Middle Chinese: mèw

English meaning : ancestral temple

Russian meaning[s]: 1) кумирня (буддийская или даосская); храм (конфуцианский); монастырь; 2) подворье; монастырский; 3) зал во дворце

Comments: In Viet. also read miễu (perhaps pointing to a variant MC *méw, OC *mrawʔ). For *m cf. Xiamen bio⁶, Chaozhou bie⁶, Fuzhou mieu⁶, Jianou miau⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 53

Four-angle index: 3484

Karlgren code: 1160 a-c, 1159 b

Vietnamese reading: miếu

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mrăwH

Meaning: a kind of settlement or dwelling

Chinese: 廟 *mrawʔ ancestral temple.

Burmese: mrǝwʔ (OB mruiwʔ) town.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1973

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 廟

MC description : 效開三去笑明

ZIHUI: 1680 1418

Beijing: miau 3

Jinan: miɔ 3

Xi'an: miau 3

Taiyuan: miau 3

Hankou: miau 3

Chengdu: miau 3

Yangzhou: miɔ 3

Suzhou: miä 32

Wenzhou: miɛ 32

Changsha: miau 32

Shuangfeng: miǝ 32

Nanchang: miɛu 32

Meixian: miau 3

Guangzhou: miu 32

Xiamen: biau 32 (lit.); bio 32

Chaozhou: bie 32

Fuzhou: mieu 32

Shanghai: miɔ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: miau 3

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