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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

庙宇

miàoyǔ

temple

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

temple

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 庙宇 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 庙宇 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我的爱好是游览古老的庙宇。wǒ de ài hào shì yóu lǎn gǔ lǎo de miào yǔ。

My hobby is visiting old temples.

庙宇的毁坏有一部分要归因於酸雨。miào yǔ de huǐ huài yǒu yī bù fèn yào guī yīn yú suān yǔ。

The decay of the shrine is due, in part, to acid rain.

您知道这座庙宇供奉的是哪个神吗?nín zhī dào zhè zuò miào yǔ gòng fèng de shì nǎ ge shén ma?

Do you know which deity this temple is dedicated to?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 庙宇.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 庙宇.

Directly before

  • 的庙宇2
  • 这座庙宇1

Directly after

  • 庙宇中1
  • 庙宇的1
  • 庙宇供奉1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 庙宇

What does 庙宇 mean in Chinese?

庙宇 (miàoyǔ) means temple.

How do you pronounce 庙宇?

庙宇 is pronounced miàoyǔ.

Is 庙宇 an HSK word?

庙宇 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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