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  *厅* | 厅* | *厅
(reception) hall / living room / office / provincial government department
HSK 5
dining hall / dining room / restaurant / CL: 間|间,
HSK 5
assembly hall; auditorium / CL:
HSK 6
hall; concourse; public lounge; (hotel) lobby
HSK 5
dining hall; cafeteria / CL: 個|个, 間|间
HSK 4
entrance hall / vestibule
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  *堂* | 堂* | *堂
(main) hall / large room for a specific purpose / CL: 間|间 / relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family / of the same clan / classifier for classes, lectures etc / classifier for sets of furniture
HSK 7-9
mourning hall / funeral hall
conference hall
dance hall / ballroom / CL: 間|间
HSK 7-9
to congregate in one hall (idiom); to gather under one roof
entrance hall; vestibule
city hall / city government
the Great Hall of the People (in Beijing)
ancestral temple / clan hall
provincial or county guild hall
palace / hall / temple buildings
HSK 7-9
main hall of a Buddhist temple
karaoke hall / singing hall (venue for concerts of popular songs)
meeting hall; assembly hall
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  *庭* | 庭* | *庭
main hall / front courtyard / law court
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  *庙* | 庙* | *庙
temple / ancestral shrine / CL: / temple fair / great imperial hall / imperial
HSK 7-9
Buddhist hall
(idiom) Zhu Yun breaks the railing (Zhu Yun was a Han Dynasty official who accused the emperor's tutor of corruption, and when sentenced to death, clung to the palace hall railing so fiercely while demanding justice that he broke it); (fig.) to speak the truth with unwavering courage; to admonish fearlessly / also pr. [zhu1yun2-she2jian4]
memorial hall / commemorative museum
HSK 7-9
exhibition hall / (expo) pavilion
Qu Yuan Memorial Hall in Zigui county 秭歸縣|秭归县, Hubei, built in 1982 and a major tourist attraction since then
memorial hall / mausoleum
ancestral hall / temple to one's forebears
ancestral hall / memorial hall
mess hall for mid-level cadres / cf. 大灶
law court / hall (in castle) / CL:
White Tiger Hall, a Han dynasty palace hall in which the famous Virtuous Discussions Held in White Tiger Hall 白虎通德論|白虎通德论 were held under the aegis of Han Emperor Zhang 漢章帝|汉章帝
to appear in court for trial (old) / (of Buddhist monks) to have a meal together in the temple hall
exhibition hall
city hall
lit. gold and jade fill the hall (idiom) / fig. abundant wealth / abundance of knowledge
mess hall for high-ranking cadres / (fig.) special treatment / cf. 大灶
scripture hall (Buddhism)
dance hall
dining hall / canteen / cafeteria
Hall of Great Strength, main hall of a Buddhist temple containing the main image of veneration 大雄
ballroom / banqueting hall
(literary) halls (of a palace or a temple)
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei
box (in a theater or concert hall) / private room (in a restaurant or karaoke)
lecture hall / CL: , 間|间
Hall of Fame
municipal government; city government; city hall
Hall of Supreme Harmony, the largest of the three halls that constitute the heart of the Outer Court of the Forbidden City 紫禁城
lit. not fit for elegant hall (of artwork) / not presentable / coarse / unrefined
couplet (hung on the columns of a hall)
concert hall / auditorium
to open a law court / to set up a mourning hall
large kitchen stove made from bricks or earth / (PRC) ordinary mess hall (lowest dining standard, ranked below 中灶 for mid-level cadres and 小灶 for the most privileged)
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  *殿* | 殿* | *殿
palace hall
mourning hall / a hall for a birthday celebration
Huairen Hall or Huairentang, a building inside Zhongnanhai 中南海, used as the main meeting place of the Politburo of the CCP
guests filled the hall (idiom); a house full of distinguished visitors
side room of a hall
hall where convicts are counted and verified
hall
side palace hall / side chamber
arrival hall
disco hall / nightclub
Hall (name)
king's palace / throne hall
tabernacle (biblical word for a meeting hall or tent)
to hold audience / to advise on state affairs / to administer state affairs / audience hall / to listen in
dining room / dining hall / mess hall
guests filled the hall (idiom); a house full of distinguished visitors
main hall / honorific for one's parents (old)
dining hall in a Buddhist temple
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  *庼* | 庼* | *庼
room / small hall
Kingdom Hall (place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses)
main hall of a Buddhist temple
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  *庑* | 庑* | *庑
small rooms facing or to the side of the main hall or veranda
lit. Notes on Passing the Hall, historical jottings by 12th century Southern Song poet Fan Gongcheng 范公偁, containing moral instructions derived from great men of Song dynasty
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  *祧* | 祧* | *祧
ancestral hall
Qilin Pavilion, located in the Weiyang Palace, a hall decorated with portraits of famous officials
memorial hall and tomb


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