gōng 宮

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Terms

  • gong (Pinyin without tones)
  • 宮 (Traditional Chinese)
  • 宫 (Simplified Chinese)
  • gōng (Pinyin)
  • kung (Wade-Giles)
  • palace (English)1

Gloss

    


    a residence or palace; residence of a ruler (Qin-Han dynasties and later); a temple, such as a Daoist temple (Guo 2002, 38; Kroll 2015, 134-135); see also gongshi 宮室2

    


    原爲房屋通稱，秦漢後特指統治者的居處；也可指廟宇，如道教的宮觀。參見“宮室”。2

    


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  • 1 FU. 2017. Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays, 356.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 GUO. 2002. A Visual Dictionary of Chinese Architecture, 38.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record; KROLL. 2015. A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese, 134-135.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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Tracy Miller, “ 宮 gōng” in Architectura Sinica last modified March 10, 2021, https://architecturasinica.org/keyword/k000061.

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Tracy Miller, “ 宮 gōng.” In Architectura Sinica, edited by . Entry published March 21, 2018. https://architecturasinica.org/keyword/k000061.

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