庙廟 in English

Measure word

• 座 zuò seat; base; stand; (bound form) constellation; (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g... attested

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 廟, the traditional character: 庙 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Bronze script 西周中期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 15 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 一个神圣的仪式在庄严的庙宇中举行。

  A sacred ritual took place in the magnificent temple.

• 在亚洲文化里，习惯在进一个房子或一座寺庙前先脱鞋子。

  In Asian culture it's customary to take one's shoes off before entering a house or temple.

• 摧毁这个寺庙。

  Destroy this temple.

• 这个寺庙是何时造的？

  When was this temple built?

• 这座寺庙是何时建的呢？

  When was this temple built?

All example sentences with 庙