庙
miào HSK7

temple

庙 (廟) miào
temple noun
a building used for religious worship or the veneration of ancestors

人们去山上的古庙祈求平安。

rén​men qù shān shàng de gǔ miào qí​qiú píng'ān.

People go to the ancient temple on the mountain to pray for safety and peace.

imperial court noun
the great hall of an emperor or the imperial administration

奶奶每个月初都会去山上的庙里祈福。

nǎi​nai měi gè yuè chū dōu huì qù shān shàng de miào lǐ qí​fú.

At the beginning of every month, Grandma goes to the temple on the mountain to pray for blessings.

temple fair noun
a traditional social gathering and market held at or near a temple

过年期间，全家人一起去逛庙。

guò​nián qī​jiān, quán jiā​rén yī​qǐ qù guàng miào.

During the Lunar New Year, the whole family went to a temple fair together.

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Classifier

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,889th most common 42.5 per million
Movie subtitles
2,658th most common 6.36 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.89 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
10.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
廟
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5E99

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)