堂 táng

1. táng noun main hall; a large room
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '堂' 1; FE '堂' 1; Unihan '堂')
2. táng measure word set; session
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: A measure word for classes, 堂 is used for (1) sets of furniture and (2) educational classes (CCD '堂' 7; FE '堂' 7).
3. táng noun a court; a government office
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Government
   Notes: (CCD '堂' 3; FE '堂' 2; Unihan '堂')
4. táng noun a special purpose building
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Such as an auditorium (CCD '堂' 2)
5. táng noun a shrine
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '堂' 4)
6. táng noun a polite way to refer to someone's mother
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (FE '堂' 3)
7. táng noun an open area on a hill
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (FE '堂' 4)
8. táng noun relatives of the same grandfather
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For example, 堂哥 'elder male cousin' (FE '堂' 5)
9. táng adjective imposing
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (FE '堂' 6)
10. táng measure word team; group
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (FE '堂' 8)
11. táng measure word measure word for classes or courses
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (Guoyu '堂' n 6)

Contained in

• 正堂 main hall ; county head; prefecture commander
• 礼拜堂(禮拜堂) chapel; church
• 草堂 a grass hut ; my humble abode
• 堂兄 an older male cousin
• 灵堂(靈堂) mourning hall; funeral hall
• 祠堂 ancestral hall; memorial hall
• 佛堂 a Buddhist hall
• 大堂 lobby
• 玉堂 a wealthy household ; the residence of an imperial concubine ; a palace hall ; an imperial office ; Yutang; Hanlin ; the home of an immortal
• 座堂 cathedral
• 燕雀处堂(燕雀處堂) a caged bird in a pavilion; to lose vigilance by comfortable living; unaware of the disasters ahead
• 课堂(課堂) a classroom
• 堂而皇之 overt; to make no secret (of one's presence); grandiose; with great scope
• 登堂入室 from the main room, enter the inner chamber; to go to the next level; to attain a higher level
• 斋堂(齋堂) food hall
• 犹太会堂(猶太會堂) synagogue; Jewish temple
• 庵堂 Buddhist nunnery
• 堂房 remote relatives
• 穿堂风(穿堂風) draft
• 堂侄(堂姪) nephew by the male line
• 拖堂 to drag out a lesson; to insist on extending class after the bell
• 进了天堂(進了天堂) to die; to enter the hall of heaven
• 冠冕堂皇 high-sounding; dignified; pompous
• 打退堂鼓 to beat the return drum; to give up; to turn tail
• 堂嫂 wife of older male cousin via male line
• 庭堂 courtyard in front of a palace
• 人间天堂(人間天堂) heaven on Earth
• 圣索非亚大教堂(聖索非亞大教堂) Hagia Sophia (the main cathedral of Constantinople, subsequently the major mosque of Istanbul)
• 随堂测验(隨堂測驗) quiz (student assessment)
• 堂堂皇皇 magnificent
• 管理会堂者(管理會堂者) gabbai; gabbaim; shamash; shamas; warden
• 威斯敏斯特教堂 Westminster Abbey, London
• 礼堂(禮堂) assembly hall; auditorium ; a hall for studying etiquette
• 堂哥 older male patrilineal cousin
• 影堂 ancestral hall
• 堂屋 central room
• 金玉满堂(金玉滿堂) a house full of gold and jade
• 店堂 customer area of a store; showroom; dining area of a restaurant
• 教堂 church
• 逃税天堂(逃稅天堂) tax haven
• 萱堂 mother

Also contained in

阅微草堂笔记 、 中山堂 、 承审公堂 、 马尾水师学堂 、 东堂 、 圣安多尼堂区 、 平山堂 、 玉堂春 、 善堂 、 教堂山

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Truncated for common words

• 卷二十二 志第二: 禮儀二 Volume 22 Treatises 2: Rites 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 138
• 卷一百〇一 志第五十四 禮四 Volume 101 Treatises 54: Rites 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 117
• 卷九 志第一 禮上 Volume 9 Treatises 1: Rituals 1 Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 92
• 卷49　列傳第14 牛弘 Volume 49 Biographies 14: Niu Hong Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 76
• 卷七十二　列傳第六十:　　高熲 牛弘 李德林 Volume 72 Biographies 60: Gao Jiong, Niu Hong, Li Delin History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 73
• 卷68　列傳第33 宇文愷 閻毗 何稠 Volume 68 Biographies 33: Yu Wenkai, Yan Pi, He Chou Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 56
• 卷九十九 志第七十五 藝文四 Volume 99 Treatises 75: Arts and Literature 4 History of Ming 明史 — count: 55
• 卷六十　　列傳第四十八:　李弼 宇文貴 侯莫陳崇 王雄 Volume 60 Biographies 48: Li Bi, Yu Wengui, Houmo Chenchong, Wang Xiong History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 54
• 鄉射禮 第五 5. Rites of the district archery meet The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮 — count: 50
• 卷一百三十 志第八十三 樂五 Volume 130 Treatises 83: Music 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 48

Collocations

• 升堂 (升堂) 攝齊升堂 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 10. 《鄉黨》 Xiang Dang — count: 43
• 堂西 (堂西) 三耦俟于堂西 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 鄉射禮 第五 5. Rites of the district archery meet — count: 36
• 堂上 (堂上) 柩在堂上 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 35
• 明堂 (明堂) 祀文王於明堂也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 周頌‧清廟之什‧我將 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Qing Miao - Wo Jiang — count: 31
• 适堂 (適堂) 司射適堂西 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 鄉射禮 第五 5. Rites of the district archery meet — count: 20
• 在堂 (在堂) 蟋蟀在堂 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧唐‧蟋蟀 Lessons from the states - Odes of Tang - Xi Shuai — count: 13
• 不下堂 (不下堂) 不見傅母不下堂 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 8
• 北堂 (北堂) 婦洗在北堂 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 士昬禮 第二 2. Nuptial rites for a common officer — count: 8
• 室堂 (室堂) 灑掃室堂及庭 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《內則》 The Pattern of the Family — count: 7
• 西堂 (西堂) 立于西堂 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 顧命 Zhou Shu - Testamentary Charge — count: 7