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"ancestral tomb" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
祖坟 祖墳 zǔ fén ancestral tomb syn
祖茔 祖塋 zǔ yíng ancestral tomb syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
坟墓 墳墓 fén mù grave / tomb syn
祖先 zǔ xiān ancestors / forebears / (biology) ancestral species / ancient species from which present-day species evolved syn
墓穴 mù xué tomb / grave syn
盗墓 盜墓 dào mù to rob a tomb
陵墓 líng mù tomb / mausoleum syn
古墓 gǔ mù old tomb (archaeology)
宗庙 宗廟 zōng miào temple / ancestral shrine syn
祠堂 cí táng ancestral hall / memorial hall syn
原籍 yuán jí ancestral home (town) / birthplace syn
祖籍 zǔ jí ancestral hometown / original domicile (and civil registration) syn
松柏 sōng bǎi pine and cypress / fig. chaste and undefiled / fig. tomb syn
墓葬 mù zàng (archeology) grave / tomb syn
庙堂 廟堂 miào táng imperial ancestral temple / imperial court / temple syn
神位 shén wèi spirit tablet / ancestral tablet syn
墓道 mù dào path leading to a grave / tomb passage / aisle leading to the coffin chamber of an ancient tomb syn
坟茔 墳塋 fén yíng grave / tomb / graveyard / cemetery / fig. one's native place (where one's ancestors are buried) syn
清明节 清明節 qīng míng jié Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
地宫 地宮 dì gōng underground palace (as part of imperial tomb)
宗室 zōng shì imperial clan / member of the imperial clan / clansman / ancestral shrine syn
秦始皇陵 qín shǐ huáng líng the tomb of the first emperor at Mt Li 驪山|骊山[Li2 shan1] near Xi'an (awaits excavation)
骊山 驪山 lí shān Mt Li near Xi'an with the tomb of the First Emperor
陵寝 陵寢 líng qǐn tomb (of king or emperor) syn
墓志 墓誌 mù zhì inscribed stone tablet placed in a tomb / memorial inscription on such a tablet syn
石虎 shí hǔ leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) / sculpted stone tiger installed at the tomb of revered figures in ancient times to ward off evil spirits
阴宅 陰宅 yīn zhái (feng shui term) tomb
明孝陵 míng xiào líng Ming tombs in Nanjing, tomb of founding Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1], a World Heritage site
古墓葬 gǔ mù zàng ancient tomb
墓 mù grave / tomb / mausoleum syn
坟 墳 fén grave / tomb / CL:座[zuo4] / embankment / mound / ancient book syn
庙 廟 miào temple / ancestral shrine / CL:座[zuo4] / temple fair / great imperial hall / imperial syn
籍 jí (bound form) book / record / register / (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral records / (bound form) membership syn
穆 mù solemn / reverent / calm / burial position in an ancestral tomb (old) / old variant of 默
陵 líng mound / tomb / hill / mountain syn
寝 寢 qǐn (bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest / (bound form) bedroom / (bound form) imperial tomb / (literary) to stop / to cease syn
传宗接代 傳宗接代 chuán zōng jiē dài to carry on one's ancestral line syn
叶落归根 葉落歸根 yè luò guī gēn a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home. syn
炎帝陵 yán dì líng Fiery Emperor's tomb in Yanling county, Zhuzhou 株洲, Hunan
穸 xī tomb
祧 tiāo ancestral hall
圹 壙 kuàng tomb syn
墓坑 mù kēng tomb pit
禘 dì imperial ancestral sacrifice
礿 yuè spring imperial ancestral sacrifice
砫 zhǔ ancestral tablet
谒陵之旅 謁陵之旅 yè líng zhī lǚ visit to ancestral tomb
封土 fēng tǔ to heap earth (to close a tomb) / a mound (covering a tomb)
祊 bēng side altar inside ancestral temple
禴 yuè spring imperial ancestral sacrifice
祠庙 祠廟 cí miào ancestral hall / temple to one's forebears
血祭 xuè jì blood sacrifice / animal sacrifice (to a God or ancestral spirit)
谒访 謁訪 yè fǎng to pay one's respects / to visit (ancestral grave)
贯气 貫氣 guàn qì (feng shui) beneficial influence, esp. from one's ancestral graves / to confer a beneficial influence
谱氏 譜氏 pǔ shì family tree / ancestral records
恋念 戀念 liàn niàn to have a sentimental attachment to (a place) / to miss (one's ancestral home etc) / to be nostalgic about
树高千丈，叶落归根 樹高千丈，葉落歸根 shù gāo qiān zhàng , yè luò guī gēn fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home
郡望 jùn wàng choronym (a family's region of origin, used as an indicator of superior social status in a surname-choronym combination) (For example, the Tang writer Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4] is also known as 韓昌黎|韩昌黎[Han2 Chang1li2], where 韓|韩[Han2] is his surname and 昌黎[Chang1li2] is his clan's ancestral prefecture 郡[jun4].)
宗祠 zōng cí ancestral temple / clan hall syn
本贯 本貫 běn guàn ancestral home / domicile of origin
祖宅 zǔ zhái ancestral house
祖屋 zǔ wū ancestral house
堎 líng mound / tomb
古墓丽影 古墓麗影 gǔ mù lì yǐng Tomb Raider (computer game)
无名战士墓 無名戰士墓 wú míng zhàn shì mù Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
介之推 jiè zhī tuī Jie Zhitui (7th century BC), legendary selfless subject of Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公|晋文公[Jin4 Wen2 gong1], in whose honor the Qingming festival 清明[Qing1 ming2] (Pure brightness or tomb-sweeping festival) is said to have been initiated
千鸟渊国家公墓 千鳥淵國家公墓 qiān niǎo yuān guó jiā gōng mù Chidori ga fuchi, national war cemetery in Tokyo / also called Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
墓主 mù zhǔ occupant of tomb / person buried
墓坑夯土层 墓坑夯土層 mù kēng hāng tǔ céng layer filled with rammed earth in a tomb pit (archeology)
坟丘 墳丘 fén qiū a tomb syn
坟山 墳山 fén shān hill cemetery / graveyard / grave / grave mound / low wall at the back of a traditional tomb syn
故墓 gù mù old tomb
松赞干布陵 松贊干布陵 sōng zàn gàn bù líng the tomb of Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo or Songzain Gambo in Lhoka prefecture
无名烈士墓 無名烈士墓 wú míng liè shì mù tomb of the unknown soldier
祠墓 cí mù memorial hall and tomb
秦陵 qín líng the tomb of the First Emperor at Mt Li 驪山|骊山[Li2 shan1] near Xi'an (awaits excavation)
窀穸 zhūn xī to bury (in a tomb) syn
邙山行 máng shān xíng a form of Yuefu 樂府|乐府 mourning song or elegy / lit. to visit a tomb on Mt Mang
坆 fén variant of 墳|坟[fen2] / grave / tomb
平坟 平墳 píng fén to remove graves / tomb removal
参谒 參謁 cān yè to visit / to pay one's respects to (a revered figure etc) / to pay homage (at a tomb etc) syn
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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