HSK 6 · Places

寺庙 sìmiào “temple” in Chinese

Traditional 寺廟

What 寺庙 means

  1. temple
  2. monastery
  3. shrine

How to say 寺庙

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale寺sì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale庙miào4th tone, falling

寺庙 in a sentence

  1. 让我们明天参观一些寺庙。

    Ràng wǒmen míngtiān cānguān yìxiē sìmiào.

    Let’s visit some temples tomorrow.

    Sentence #834702 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 这个寺庙是何时造的？

    Zhè ge sìmiào shì héshí zào de?

    When was this temple built?

    Sentence #782740 from Tatoeba

How 寺庙 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 寺 (sì) with each of its parts in a different colour
寺sìBuddhist temple
  • 土earth · tǔ
  • 寸inch · cùn
The character 庙 (miào) with each of its parts in a different colour
庙miàotemple
  • 广shelter · guǎng
  • 由cause · yóu

How to write 寺庙

寺 6 strokes · 庙 8 strokes

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寺庙 (sìmiào) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 寺庙 (sìmiào). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 寺庙

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FAQs

寺庙 (sìmiào) means “temple” or “monastery”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it sìmiào: sì with a 4th tone, then miào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 寺庙 is written 寺廟. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type simiao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 寺庙 from the suggestions. Typing simiao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
寺庙 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.