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Mythic Mandarin

庙 (miào): meaning and stroke order

庙 (miào) means temple, ancestral shrine, CL:座, temple fair, great imperial hall, imperial.

庙

Simplified
庙
Traditional
廟
Pinyin
miào

Stroke order of 庙

庙

  • miào temple; ancestral shrine
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 廟

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 庙

  1. miào Traditional 廟
    • temple
    • ancestral shrine
    • CL:座[zuo4]
    • temple fair
    • great imperial hall
    • imperial

Radical and structure

庙
Radical 广 (Kangxi radical 53) · 8 strokes · built from 广 and 由

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 庙

庙 in our stories

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  • 明朝的时候，书生顾青去京城考试，路上下起了大雨，只好在一座没有人的老庙里过夜。

    Míngcháo de shíhou shūshēng Gù Qīng qù jīngchéng kǎoshì lù shàng xià qǐ le dà yǔ zhǐhǎo zài yí zuò méiyǒu rén de lǎo miào lǐ guòyè

    In the Ming dynasty, a scholar called Gu Qing was travelling to the capital for the examinations. Caught in a downpour, he had to spend the night in an old, deserted temple.

    From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5

Stories using 庙

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).