spirit

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from the image of an altar or shrine in seal script and oracle-bone script. It represents a table or platform used for offerings to spirits, giving it the meaning of "spirit" or "divine."

Mnemonic: An altar table with vertical strokes at the top—where we show reverence to the divine.

• 祂tā🔊

  (third-person pronoun for God in the Christian Bible)

  7 strokes

• 社shè🔊

  (bound form) society; organization; agency

  HSK 5

  7 strokes

• 礿yuè🔊

  spring imperial ancestral sacrifice

  7 strokes

• 祀sì🔊

  variant of 祀[si4]

  7 strokes

• 祃mà🔊

  (arch.) religious ritual on setting out for war

  7 strokes

• 祇qí🔊

  god of the earth

  8 strokes

• 祅yāo🔊

  evil spirit

  8 strokes

• 祄xiè🔊

  to bless

  8 strokes

• 祆Xiān🔊

  Ahura Mazda, the creator deity in Zoroastrianism

  8 strokes

• 祈qí🔊

  to implore

  8 strokes

• 祉zhǐ🔊

  felicity

  8 strokes

• 祊bēng🔊

  side altar inside ancestral temple

  8 strokes

• 祎yī🔊

  excellent

  8 strokes

• 神shén🔊

  god; deity

  HSK 5

  9 strokes

• 祝zhù🔊

  to pray for

  HSK 3

  9 strokes

• 祖zǔ🔊

  ancestor

  9 strokes

• 祍rèn🔊

  old variant of 衽[ren4]

  9 strokes

• 祏shí🔊

  stone shrine

  9 strokes

• 祢mí🔊

  memorial tablet in a temple commemorating a deceased father

  9 strokes

• 祔fù🔊

  worship ancestors

  9 strokes

• 祓fú🔊

  to cleanse

  9 strokes

• 祐yòu🔊

  (of divinity) to bless

  9 strokes

• 祗zhī🔊

  respectful (ly)

  9 strokes

• 祚zuò🔊

  blessing

  9 strokes

• 祛qū🔊

  sacrifice to drive away calamity

  9 strokes

• 祜hù🔊

  celestial blessing

  9 strokes

• 祠cí🔊

  shrine

  9 strokes

• 祥xiáng🔊

  auspicious

  10 strokes

• 祘suàn🔊

  variant of 算[suan4], to calculate

  10 strokes

• 祟suì🔊

  evil spirit

  10 strokes

• 祧tiāo🔊

  ancestral hall

  10 strokes

• 祫xiá🔊

  triennial sacrifice to ancestors

  10 strokes

• 祯zhēn🔊

  auspicious

  10 strokes