昭穆 zhāomù zhao-mu system Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 昭 zhāo zhao (bound form) the left-hand position in the order of ancestral shrines, opposite to 穆 mù穆 mù [order] (bound form) the position on the right in an ancestral temple, specifically the even-numbered generations starting from the second; often paired with 昭 zhāo