"worship ancestors" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
worship ancestors
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
崇拜 chóng bài to worship / adoration syn
祖先 zǔ xiān ancestors / forebears / (biology) ancestral species / ancient species from which present-day species evolved syn
做礼拜 做禮拜 zuò lǐ bài to worship / to pray (esp. in a regular religious gathering at a church or mosque)
祭祀 jì sì to offer sacrifices to the gods or ancestors syn
供养 供養 gòng yǎng to make offerings to (gods or ancestors) / Taiwan pr. [gong4yang4] syn
先辈 先輩 xiān bèi an older generation / ancestors / forefathers syn
祖传 祖傳 zǔ chuán passed on from ancestors / handed down from generation to generation syn
祭奠 jì diàn to offer sacrifices (to one's ancestors) / to hold or attend a memorial service syn
回老家 huí lǎo jiā to go back to one's roots / to return to one's native place / by ext. to join one's ancestors (i.e. to die) syn
上辈子 上輩子 shàng bèi zi one's ancestors / past generations / a former incarnation syn
供奉 gòng fèng to consecrate / to enshrine and worship / an offering (to one's ancestors) / a sacrifice (to a god) syn
祭拜 jì bài to offer sacrifice (to one's ancestors) syn
先祖 xiān zǔ (literary) my deceased grandfather / (literary) ancestors syn
祖辈 祖輩 zǔ bèi ancestors / forefathers / ancestry syn
朝拜 cháo bài to worship / to make customary deferences to / a pilgrimage syn
参拜 參拜 cān bài to formally call on / to worship (a God) / to pay homage to sb syn
祭礼 祭禮 jì lǐ sacrificial offerings / worship / religious rite syn
跪拜 guì bài to kowtow / to kneel and worship syn
祭祖 jì zǔ to offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
拜佛 bài fó to worship Buddha syn
光宗耀祖 guāng zōng yào zǔ to bring honor to one's ancestors syn
上供 shàng gòng to make offerings (to gods or ancestors) / to offer gifts to superiors in order to win their favor syn
拜金 bài jīn to worship money / to be mad about money
拜天地 bài tiān dì to worship heaven and earth / ritual kneeling by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony / also called 拜堂 syn
坟茔 墳塋 fén yíng grave / tomb / graveyard / cemetery / fig. one's native place (where one's ancestors are buried) syn
元宝 元寶 yuán bǎo a silver or gold ingot / mock ingot (burnt as offering in worship) / a name for ancient currency / a rare genius syn
顶礼膜拜 頂禮膜拜 dǐng lǐ mó bài to prostrate oneself in worship (idiom) / (fig.) to worship / to bow down to syn
拜祭 bài jì to worship / to observe religious rites / to pay one's respects (to one's ancestors etc)
敬拜 jìng bài to worship
回纥 回紇 huí hé Huihe, ancient name of an ethnic group who were the ancestors of the Uyghurs 維吾爾族|维吾尔族[Wei2wu2er3zu2] and the Yugurs 裕固族[Yu4gu4zu2]
老辈 老輩 lǎo bèi the older generation / ancestors syn
奉祀 fèng sì to worship / to pay respects to (a deity, ancestor etc) / (of a shrine or temple) to be dedicated to (a deity, ancestor etc)
to offer a sacrifice to (gods or ancestors) / (in classical novels) to recite an incantation to activate a magic weapon / to wield (sth magic) / (bound form) ceremony / (Tw) (bound form) (celebratory) festival syn
chóng high / sublime / lofty / to esteem / to worship syn
敬奉 jìng fèng to worship piously / to present / to dedicate syn
本本主义 本本主義 běn běn zhǔ yì book worship / bookishness syn
奉若神明 fèng ruò shén míng to honor sb as a God (idiom) / to revere / to worship / to deify / to make a holy cow of sth / to put sb on a pedestal syn
拜金主义 拜金主義 bài jīn zhǔ yì money worship
偶人 ǒu rén idol (i.e. statue for worship) syn
xiá triennial sacrifice to ancestors
光前裕后 光前裕後 guāng qián yù hòu to bring honor to one's ancestors and benefit future generations (idiom) syn
数典忘祖 數典忘祖 shǔ diǎn wàng zǔ to recount history but omit one's ancestors (idiom) / to forget one's roots syn
荣宗耀祖 榮宗耀祖 róng zōng yào zǔ to bring honor to one's ancestors (idiom) / also written 光宗耀祖 syn
basket used in state worship
步斗踏罡 bù dǒu tà gāng to worship the astral deities (idiom, refers to Daoist astrology)
步罡踏斗 bù gāng tà dǒu to worship the astral deities (idiom, refers to Daoist astrology)
吊祭 弔祭 diào jì a worship ceremony for the dead / to offer sacrifice (to ancestors) / a libation
索国 索國 suǒ guó Somalia / Somaliland / (Tw) Solomon Islands / Suoguo, a state recorded in the Chinese historical texts, said to have been established by the ancestors of the Göktürks
五祖拳 wǔ zǔ quán Wuzuquan - "Five Ancestors" - Martial Art
回鹘 回鶻 huí hú Huihu, ancient name of an ethnic group who were the ancestors of the Uyghurs 維吾爾族|维吾尔族[Wei2wu2er3zu2] and the Yugurs 裕固族[Yu4gu4zu2]
祖鸟类 祖鳥類 zǔ niǎo lèi dinosaur ancestors of birds
积祖 積祖 jī zǔ many generations of ancestors
谱牒 譜牒 pǔ dié genealogical record / record of ancestors / family tree
斋祭 齋祭 zhāi jì to offer sacrifices (to gods or ancestors) whilst abstaining from meat, wine etc
上辈 上輩 shàng bèi ancestors / one's elders syn
先君 xiān jūn my late father / my ancestors / the late emperor
显祖 顯祖 xiǎn zǔ ancestors (old)
祖祠 zǔ cí shrine dedicated to one's ancestors
崇拜仪式 崇拜儀式 chóng bài yí shì worship service
王国聚会所 王國聚會所 wáng guó jù huì suǒ Kingdom Hall (place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses)
因父之名 yīn fù zhī míng in the Name of the Father (in Christian worship)
尊奉 zūn fèng worship / to revere / to venerate
崇洋媚外 chóng yáng mèi wài to revere everything foreign and pander to overseas powers (idiom) / blind worship of foreign goods and ideas
承重孙 承重孫 chéng zhòng sūn eldest grandson (to sustain upper storeys of ancestor worship)
清酌 qīng zhuó wine offered to gods in worship
烧香拜佛 燒香拜佛 shāo xiāng bài fó to burn incense and worship Buddha
瞻拜 zhān bài to worship / to gaze with reverence
顶拜 頂拜 dǐng bài to prostrate oneself / to kneel and bow the head (in submission, supplication, worship etc)
宗教自由 zōng jiào zì yóu freedom of religious worship
外交、国际贸易和宗教事务部 外交、國際貿易和宗教事務部 Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship
礼拜场所 禮拜場所 place of worship
膜拜 mó bài to kneel and bow with joined hands at forehead level / to worship syn
崇奉 chóng fèng to believe in (a deity or other supernatural being) / to worship syn
拜魔 bài mó to worship the devil
本尊 běn zūn (Buddhism) yidam (one's chosen meditational deity) / the principal object of worship on a Buddhist altar / (of a monk who has the ability to appear in multiple places at the same time) the honored one himself (contrasted with his alternate forms, 分身[fen1 shen1]) / (fig.) (jocular) the genuine article / the real McCoy / the man himself / the woman herself / the original manifestation of sth (not a spin-off or a clone)
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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