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Kanji Detail for 祧 - "ancestral temple"
祧
- Meaning
祧 means "ancestral temple."
Ancestral temple - A shrine for distant ancestors.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
an ancestral hall
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
an ancestral hall
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
ancestral hall
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
ancestral hall
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To remove to a distant temple. Anciently the number of ancestral temples followed a fixed system according to rank. When distant ancestors exceeded the fixed number of generations, their spirit tablets were moved to the 祧. See (Record of Rites, Sacrificial Laws) for details.
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