tiāo

  1. tiāo noun an ancestral hall; an ancestral vault
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Especially, a hall where older ancestors' tablets are moved to make room for more recently departed ones (Kroll p. 452)
  2. tiāo verb to be recognized as a true descendent
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll p. 452)
  3. tiāo verb to remove an ancestral temple to a distance; to take up a shrine and remove it
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Medhurst, 1842, volume 2, p. 672) 遠廟爲祧,去祧爲壇。(康熙字典 - Kangxi Dictionary)

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兼祧承祧守祧

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