tán 壇
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- tan (Pinyin without tones)
- 壇 (Traditional Chinese)
- 坛 (Simplified Chinese)
- tán (Pinyin)1
- t'an (Wade-Giles)
Gloss
altar; place for ritual sacrifices, usually a raised structure of pounded earth; building complex where the primary ritual structure is an altar (Guo 2002, 77; Fu 2017, 367; Kroll 2015, 441).2
Works Cited
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- 1 陳. 2010. 《營造法式》辭解, 367.
- 2 GUO. 2002. A Visual Dictionary of Chinese Architecture, 77.; FU. 2017. Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays, 367.; KROLL. 2015. A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese, 441.
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壇 tán” in Architectura Sinica last modified May 27, 2021, https://architecturasinica.org/keyword/k000176.
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