廟

廟 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 戈十十月 (IJJB), four-corner 0022₇, composition ⿸广朝)

• 𫗻(𬳙)

• 庙 (Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 350, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9489
• Dae Jaweon: page 662, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 901, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5EDF

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mrews): semantic 广 + phonetic 朝 (OC *ʔr'ew, *r'ew).

Possibly related to Proto-Hmong-Mien *prəuX (“house”), whence White Hmong tsev (“idem”) (Schuessler, 2007). Note also Burmese မြို့ (mrui., “town, city”).

廟

1. (architecture, religion) temple (Classifier: 座; 間／间)

   寧拆十座廟，不毀一樁婚 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   宁拆十座庙，不毁一桩婚 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   níng chāi shí zuò miào, bù huǐ yī zhuāng hūn [Pinyin]

   I’d rather tear down ten temples than destroy a marriage.

The term 廟 is primarily used in the formal names for the temples of traditional deities who rank fairly low in the celestial hierarchy. The temples of higher-ranking gods, such as Mazu after her elevation to the "Queen of Heaven" by the Qing dynasty, are usually known as 宮／宫 (gōng, “palace”).

Others:

• → Proto-Be: *miːwᴮꟲ²
  • Lingao: miu⁴
• → Lü: ᦶᦖᧁᧈ (ṁaew¹)
• → Vietnamese: miễu

• “廟”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “庙”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 179.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←めう (meu, historical)}
• Kan-on: びょう (byō)^{←べう (beu, historical)}
• Kun: たまや (tamaya, 廟)、みたまや (mitamaya, 廟)、やしろ (yashiro, 廟)

廟(びょう) • (byō) ^{←べう (beu)?}

1. mausoleum
2. shrine
3. palace

廟 (eumhun 사당 묘 (sadang myo))

1. hanja form^? of 묘 (“temple, shrine”)
2. hanja form^? of 묘 (“imperial court”)

廟: Hán Nôm readings: miếu, mưỡu, méo, miễu

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