Chinese

宗教

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
religion; the sacred
  • HSK 6
  • TOCFL 5

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Origin

Wasei kango (和(わ)製(せい)漢(かん)語(ご)), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 宗(しゅう)教(きょう) (shūkyō).

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Lineage

  • borrowedJapanese宗
  • characterChinese宗 “ancestral temple”
    • ideaChinese宀 “a type of deep house with walls on all four sides, a roof, a main hall, and back rooms”
    • ideaChinese示 “to show; to reveal; to indicate; to notify; to instruct”
  • characterChinese教 “to teach; to instruct”
    • soundChinese爻 “a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines; a hexagram of the I Ching”
      • componentChinese乂 “original form of 刈 (yì, “to weed; to mow”)”
    • meaningChinese子 “child; offspring; descendant”
    • meaningChinese攴 “to hit lightly; to tap”

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