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

• 满堂(滿堂) whole audience; a sellout (capacity audience); jam-packed
• 过堂(過堂) to appear in court for trial
• 洋务学堂(洋務學堂) college of Western learning in late Qing
• 三代同堂 three generations under one roof
• 大会堂(大會堂) an auditorium
• 满堂灌(滿堂灌) cramming (as a teaching method); rote learning
• 食堂 dining hall
• 讲堂(講堂) a lecture hall
• 庵堂 Buddhist nunnery
• 影堂 ancestral hall
• 店堂 customer area of a store; showroom; dining area of a restaurant
• 中堂 a calligraphic work for the center of a large hall
• 礼堂(禮堂) assembly hall; auditorium ; a hall for studying etiquette
• 正堂 main hall ; county head; prefecture commander
• 堂侄(堂姪) nephew by the male line
• 学堂(學堂) a college; a school
• 闯出名堂(闖出名堂) to make a name for oneself
• 随堂测验(隨堂測驗) quiz (student assessment)
• 同堂 to live under the same roof (of different generations)
• 堂弟媳 wife of younger male cousin via male line
• 开堂(開堂) to open a law court; to set up a mourning hall
• 祠堂 ancestral hall; memorial hall
• 灵堂(靈堂) mourning hall; funeral hall
• 教堂 church
• 大堂 lobby
• 堂嫂 wife of older male cousin via male line
• 饭堂(飯堂) dining hall; canteen; cafeteria
• 怀仁堂(懷仁堂) Huairen Hall; Huairentang
• 升堂入室 to reach the main room and enter the chamber; to gradually attain proficiency
• 殿堂 a palace; a hall
• 翻转课堂(翻轉課堂) flipped classroom
• 名堂 item (in a program of entertainments); trick (act of mischief); worthwhile result; accomplishment; something significant but not immediately apparent
• 犹太会堂(猶太會堂) synagogue; Jewish temple
• 打退堂鼓 to beat the return drum; to give up; to turn tail
• 礼拜堂(禮拜堂) chapel; church
• 公堂 a law court ; a school
• 印堂 nose bridge between the eyebrows

Also contained in

玉堂春 、 平山堂 、 参堂 、 五参上堂 、 僧堂 、 船政学堂 、 承审公堂 、 资生堂 、 枯木堂 、 金堂 、 响堂山 、 菴堂 、 坐堂 、 善堂

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: 56
• 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: 52
• 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: 21
• 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