Kanji Details:
- 廟
- Frequency:2101
- Kun: たまや, みたまや, やしろ
- On: ビョウ, ミョウ
- Meaning: mausoleum, shrine, palace
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Examples:
Word Reading Meaning 伊勢大廟 いせたいびょう the Grand Shrines of Ise 古廟 こびょう old shrine 帝廟 ていびょう imperial mausoleum 宗廟 そうびょう ancestral shrine (temple), mausoleum (of one's ancestors), Imperial mausoleum 祖廟 そびょう mausoleum containing the remains of one's ancestors 霊廟 れいびょう mausoleum 聖廟 せいびょう Confucian temple 廟堂 びょうどう the Court 廟号 びょうごう temple name (a two-character posthumous name given to Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese royalty); name given to a mausoleum (or shrine, etc.)