祠

Information about character(s)

Radical: 示
Radical Strokes: 5
Additional Strokes: 5
Total Strokes: 9

Pronunciation

Pinyin: cí, sì
Cantonese: ci4
JapaneseKun: HOKORA MATSURU
JapaneseOn: SHI
Korean: SA
Vietnamese: từ

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: ancestral temple; offer sacrifice

CE-Dict: ancestral hall/temple/to worship

Soothill: The spring ancestral sacrifice; the spring; ancestral temple, tablet, etc.

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.an ancestral shrine

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: ancestral temple

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: ancestral temple

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《示部》祠春祭曰祠。品物少，多文詞也。从示司聲。仲春之月，祠不用犧牲，用圭璧及皮幣。

康熙字典文字版 【午集下】【示字部】祠
【唐韻】似兹切【集韻】【韻會】【正韻】詳兹切，𠀤音詞。祭也。【詩·小雅】禴祠烝嘗。【公羊傳·桓八年】春曰祠。【註】祠，猶食也，猶繼嗣也。春物始生，孝子思親，繼嗣而食之，故曰祠，因以別死生。　又報賽也。【周禮·春官】小宗伯禱祠於上下神示。【註】求福曰禱，得求曰祠。　又神祠。【史記·封禪書】立畤郊上帝，諸神祠皆聚云。　又廟也。【朱子·家禮】君子將營宮室，先立祠堂於正寢之東。【司馬光·文潞公家廟𥓓】先王之制，天子至官師皆有廟。秦尊君𤰞臣，無敢營宗廟者。漢世多建祠堂於墓所。　又生祠。【史記·萬石君傳】慶爲齊相，大治，爲立石相祠。　又祠官。【朱子·語錄】王介甫更新法，慮天下議論不合，於是甁爲宮觀祠祿，以待異議之人。　又叶祥吏切，音劑。【張衡·東京賦】春秋改節，四時迭代。蒸蒸之心，感物增思。躬追養於廟祧，奉烝嘗與禴祠。代叶地，思叶四。

CF-Dict: temple des ancêtres