Chinese characters : Query result

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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