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

• 鬼名堂 dirty trick; monkey business
• 堂妹 younger female patrilineal cousin
• 祠堂 ancestral hall; memorial hall
• 萱堂 mother
• 斋堂(齋堂) food hall
• 客堂 a reception hall; a room to meet guests; a parlor
• 庵堂 Buddhist nunnery
• 讲堂(講堂) a lecture hall
• 进了天堂(進了天堂) to die; to enter the hall of heaven
• 天堂 heaven ; paradise ; a position on the forehead in fortune telling
• 坐不垂堂 don't sit under the eaves (where tiles may fall from the roof); keep out of danger
• 洋务学堂(洋務學堂) college of Western learning in late Qing
• 堂姊妹 father's brother's daughters; paternal female cousin
• 怀仁堂(懷仁堂) Huairen Hall; Huairentang
• 威斯敏斯特教堂 Westminster Abbey, London
• 堂兄 an older male cousin
• 济济一堂(濟濟一堂) to congregate in one hall; to gather under one roof
• 金玉满堂(金玉滿堂) a house full of gold and jade
• 亮堂堂 very bright; well-lit
• 亮堂 bright; clear
• 满堂灌(滿堂灌) cramming (as a teaching method); rote learning
• 灵堂(靈堂) mourning hall; funeral hall
• 中堂 a calligraphic work for the center of a large hall
• 庭堂 courtyard in front of a palace
• 犹太会堂(猶太會堂) synagogue; Jewish temple
• 正堂 main hall ; county head; prefecture commander
• 刑堂 torture chamber
• 座堂 cathedral
• 混出名堂 to make it; to be somebody
• 留堂 to stay behind (after class); to be given detention; detention
• 澡堂 public baths
• 教堂 church
• 佛堂 a Buddhist hall
• 打退堂鼓 to beat the return drum; to give up; to turn tail
• 公堂 a law court ; a school
• 家堂 family shrine
• 满堂彩(滿堂彩) everyone present applauds; universal acclaim; a standing ovation; to bring the house down
• 满堂红(滿堂紅) success across the board; victory in everything one touches
• 寿堂(壽堂) mourning hall; a hall for a birthday celebration
• 玉堂 a wealthy household ; the residence of an imperial concubine ; a palace hall ; an imperial office ; Yutang; Hanlin ; the home of an immortal

Also contained in

金堂县 、 阅微草堂笔记 、 圣安多尼堂区 、 玉堂春 、 教堂山 、 堂吉诃德 、 东堂 、 政事堂 、 远香堂 、 书堂 、 资生堂

Word is mentioned most frequently in

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