Memory phrase for the character: 祠

祠

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Meaning

ancestral hall, temple, to worship

Pronunciation

cí

Explanation

Left: altar, to show 礻/示, right: civil servant, administer 司 (... where sb. is sitting in a corner ⌝ throwing a sheet 一 of paper in the wastebasket 口)

Mnemonic

The altar of the administration is the (registration) in the ancestral hall.

Radicals

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.
司	administration

Vocabulary

祠堂	cí táng	ancestral hall; memorial hall
祠庙	cí miào	ancestral hall; temple to one's forebears
祠墓	cí mù	memorial hall and tomb

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