Memory phrase for the character: 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, altarShows a simple altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and blood 八 is trickling down. Thus the meanings: to show and altar.




 Vocabulary

吐鲁番 Tǔ lǔ fān  
吐鲁番 Tǔ lǔ fān  
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
宗庙 zōng miào  
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
黄宗羲 Huáng Zōng xī  

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