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spirit, god, supernatural being

look at, inspect, observe, see

happiness, good fortune, blessing

social custom

god of the soil and altars to him

slip of paper or bamboo

ancestor, forefather

restrict, prohibit, forbid

show, manifest

misfortune, calamity, disaster

blessing, happiness, prosperity

sacrifice to, worship

pray for happiness or blessings

good luck, good omen

meditation, contemplation (dhyana)

mysterious, secret, abstruse

pray

ancestral temple

pray

pray

defend, resist, hold out against

expel, disperse, exorcise

happiness

blessing, happiness, prosperity

the spirit of the earth

exorcise, remove evil

evil spirit

a sacrifice at the beginning of a military campaign or on the 2nd and 16th day of the lunar month

to sacrifice, worship

happiness, blessings, good luck

throne

good luck, good fortune

lucky, auspicious, good omen

divine intervention, protection

semi-annual ceremony of purification

to receive blessings in a sincere spirit

one's deceased father

pray or sacrifice, exorcise

he (honorific form, generally used for the Abrahamic God)

calamities, disasters

Ormazda, god of the Zoroastrians

river in Shāndōng

respect, look up to, revere

one's deceased father

ominous or sinister spirit

to pray

excellent, rare

name of a place in the kingdom of Qi during the Chunqiu era and now in Changqing county, Shandong province

surname

surname Xuan

pray for good fortune

sacrifice offered at the end of the three years' mourning the death of a parent

name of a mountain (of warship), (same as 禔) happiness

to offer a small pig as sacrifice when worshipping the god of life

a rite or service, message offered to the gods in worship

(same as 禍) calamity

to worship

(ancient form) to pray and to curse (the ways of treating a patient in ancient times)

(ancient standard form 殃) misfortune

achievement

(same as standard form 餋) to worship

to worship

(corrupted form) a family name

sacrifice to happiness and good luck

a rite or service, (same as 娥) good

to pray for preventing or forestalling calamities, muddy

to perform rites in honor of the ancestral temple

(same as 蜡) year-end sacrifice of the Zhou Dynasty

(same as 婍) pretty

(same as 祅) bizarre, calamity due to terrestrial disturbances (as distinct from 災 -- disaster which is sent down from above) (interchangeable 妖) weird

to worship

(same as standard form 䄆) (non-classical form) to worship

(same as standard form 稔) ripening of paddy or rice

to worship, a rite

a family name

(ancient form of 社) god of the land, an association

used in name of a person

a rite

happiness

to worship the god (of the hog

(standard form 膢) (in ancient times) service or rites of offering sacrifices for drink and food

happiness and well-being

show no respect to the service of worship

to worship

(ancient form of 禪) to sacrifice to heaven, the imperial power, as only the emperor was allowed to offer these sacrifices, to cleanse

northern minority ethnic group (in ancient times), (corrupted form of 襜) the lower front of a robe, gown, etc., clean and neat (said of appearance)

(same as 齋) pious

to sink

a god

cult

blessings, happiness

sacrifice

to bless

old variant of 衽[ren4]

shrine

worship one's ancestors

to calculate

demon

happiness

an ancestral hall

red or short garments

triennial sacrifice to one's ancestors