ancestral temple

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
礻 meaning component

  Meaning component

shì

  

show

is a component form of .

司 sound component

  Sound component

  

take charge of

Evolution

祠 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
祠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
祠 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
祠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

ancestral temple; offer sacrifice; shrine; to offer a sacrifice

Most common words with 祠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

shrine

祠堂

ancestral hall

武侯祠

refers to tourist attraction in Chengdu 成都

祠庙

ancestral hall

土谷祠

local monastery

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*sə.lə

zi

sacrifice


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3319th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+7960

Shuowen

“祠,春祭曰祠,品物少,多文詞也。从示,司聲。仲春之月,祠不用犧牲,用圭璧及皮幣。”


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