Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 宗

宗

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Meaning

 Religion, school of a teaching, ancestor

Pronunciation

 zōng

Explanation

 Top: roof 宀, bottom: to show 示 (altar 丁 on which something 一 can be seen)

Mnemonic

The 'roof' over the altar is the religion.

Radicals

宗 Religion, school of a teaching
宀 roof
示 to show, altar(Shows a simple altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and blood 八 is trickling down. Thus the meanings: to show and altar.)
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Vocabulary

唐懿宗 Táng Yì zōng Emperor Yizong of Tang (833-873)
禅宗 chán zōng Zen Buddhism
宗庙 zōng miào temple; ancestral shrine
宗旨 zōng zhǐ objective; aim; goal
宗教 zōng jiào religion
黄宗羲 Huáng Zōng xī Huang Zongxi (1610-1695), scholar and writer of the Ming-Qing transition

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