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Kanji Detail for 祠 - "worship, shrine, spirit hall"
祠
- Meaning
祠 means "worship, shrine, spirit hall."
Worship - To enshrine; to venerate gods.
Shrine - A small sanctuary; a place to worship gods.
Spirit hall - A place to enshrine ancestral spirits.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
small shrine
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
ancestral temple; offer sacrifice
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
shrine; to offer a sacrifice
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
ancestral temple; to sacrifice
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A place for worshipping spirits. Such as 先賢祠 (shrine for worthy predecessors), 忠義祠 (shrine for the loyal and righteous) and such. Also, family temples are called 祠. Such as 宗祠 (ancestral hall), 支祠 (branch hall).
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