庙堂

廟堂
miàotáng
  1. imperial ancestral temple
  2. imperial court
  3. temple

CEDICT

  1. (archaic) ancestral temple
  2. (archaic) the imperial court
  3. ancestral temple
  4. the imperial court

Wiktionary

  1. 宗庙。
  2. 朝廷。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 庙 miào
  1. temple
  2. ancestral shrine
  3. temple fair
  4. great imperial hall
  5. imperial

classifier: 座
2 堂 táng
  1. (main) hall
  2. large room for a specific purpose
  3. relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family
  4. of the same clan
  5. classifier for classes, lectures etc
  6. classifier for sets of furniture

classifier: 間

Related entries

廊庙 lángmiào imperial court
龙庭 lóngtíng imperial court
天庭 tiāntíng
  1. middle of the forehead
  2. imperial court
  3. heaven
霄汉 xiāohàn
  1. the sky
  2. the heavens
  3. (fig.) imperial court
太阳穴 tàiyángxué temple (on the sides of human head)
我太阳穴处疼极了。

My temples are hurting me terribly.

Source: Tatoeba

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