廟

See also: 庙
廟 U+5EDF, 廟
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EDF
← 廞
[U+5EDE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 廠 →
[U+5EE0]

Translingual

Han character

廟 (radical 53 广+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 戈十十月 (IJJB), four-corner 00227, composition ⿸广朝)

Derived characters

  • 𫗻(𬳙)

References

  • KangXi: page 350, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9489
  • Dae Jaweon: page 662, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 901, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5EDF

Chinese

trad. 廟
simp. 庙
alt. forms 庿

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (朝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嘲 *ʔr'eːw
廟 *mrews
朝 *ʔr'ew, *r'ew
潮 *r'ew

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mrews) : semantic 广 + phonetic 朝 (OC *ʔr'ew, *r'ew).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • biāu - literary;
  • biō - vernacular.
Rime
Character 廟
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 宵 (92)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 眉召切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠiᴇuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚiɛuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miæuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /miawH/
Li
Rong		 /mjɛuH/
Wang
Li		 /mĭɛuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi̯ɛuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 miào
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 廟
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 miào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjewH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[m]raw-s/
English a kind of building with side rooms

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 廟
Reading # 1/1
No. 1306
Phonetic
component		 朝
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 廟
Old
Chinese		 /*mrews/
Notes 古文作庿

Definitions

廟

  1. (architecture, religion) temple (Classifier: 座; 間／间)

Usage notes

The term 廟 is primarily used for the temples of traditional deities who rank fairly low in the celestial hierarchy. The temples of higher-ranking gods, such as Mazu after her elevation to the "Queen of Heaven" by the Qing dynasty, are usually known as 宮／宫 (gōng, “palace”).

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

廟

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Noun

廟 (hiragana びょう, rōmaji byō)

  1. mausoleum
  2. shrine
  3. palace

Korean

Hanja

廟 • (myo) (hangeul 묘)

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Vietnamese

Han character

廟 (miếu, mưỡu, méo, miễu)

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