Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- cí
English
- ancestral temple
- shrine
- offer sacrifice
- to offer a sacrifice
- shrine; temple (mostly ancestral)
- shrine; temple (mostly ancestral)
粵語
- 供奉先人、神祇或者受尊崇嘅人嘅建築，受祀奉者多數係祖先（量詞：座）
- 供奉先人、神祇或者受尊崇嘅人嘅建築，受祀奉者多數係祖先
Words containing 祠
- 祠堂ci4 tong2
ancestral hall
- 宗祠zung1 ci4
ancestral temple
- 祖祠zou2 ci4
shrine dedicated to one's ancestors
- 大祠堂daai6 ci5 tong2
ancestral temple [written and colloquial]; Stanley Prison in Hong Kong [colloquial]
- 拆祠堂caak3 ci4 tong2
a curse used to threaten someone that they will have their penis cut off ; literally: to wreck the ancestral hall [colloquial]
- 神祠san4 ci4
shrine
- 祠廟ci4 miu2
ancestral hall
- 祠墓ci4 mou6
memorial hall and tomb
- 屈原祠wat1 jyun4 ci4
Qu Yuan memorial temple on the Miluo river 汨羅江|汨罗江 at Yueyang 岳陽市|岳阳市, Hunan
- 生祠sang1 ci4
temple dedicated to sb still alive
- 祠堂前ci4 tong2 cin4
- 拜祠堂baai3 ci4 tong2
- 陳家祠can4 gaa1 ci4
Chen Clan ancestral temple, a place in Guangzhou, China
- 土穀祠tou2 guk1 ci4
temple dedicated to the local tutelary god 土地神[tu3 di4 shen2] and the god of cereals
- 義勇祠ji6 jung5 ci4
- 武侯祠mou5 hau4 ci4
temple dedicated to the memory of Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮[Zhu1 ge3 Liang4] (There is one in Chengdu, and many others in various parts of China.)
- 祠堂門口ci4 tong2 mun4 hau2
- 何氏家祠ho4 si6 gaa1 ci4
- 曾氏宗祠zang1 si6 zung1 ci4