清真寺

Chinese

		halal or qingzhen; permissible according to Muslim religious customs, especially of food preparation	Buddhist temple
trad. (清真寺/淸真寺/清眞寺/淸眞寺)		清真/淸真/清眞/淸眞	寺
simp. (清真寺)		清真	寺

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qīngzhēnsì

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥ ㄓㄣ ㄙˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cing¹ zan¹ zi^6-2
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhîn-chṳ̂n-sṳ
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chheng-chin-sī

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qīngzhēnsì
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥ ㄓㄣ ㄙˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cingjhensìh
    • Wade–Giles: chʻing¹-chên¹-ssŭ⁴
    • Yale: chīng-jēn-sz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chingjensyh
    • Palladius: цинчжэньсы (cinčžɛnʹsy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂən⁵⁵ sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cing¹ zan¹ zi^6-2
    • Yale: chīng jān jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsing¹ dzan¹ dzi^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: qing¹ zen¹ ji^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ t͡sɐn⁵⁵ t͡siː²²⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhîn-chṳ̂n-sṳ
    • Hakka Romanization System: qin^ˊ ziin^ˊ sii
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qin¹ zin¹ si⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰin²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sɨn²⁴⁻¹¹ sɨ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheng-chin-sī
    • Tâi-lô: tshing-tsin-sī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhengcinsi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sin⁴⁴⁻²² si²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sin⁴⁴⁻³³ si³³/

Noun

清真寺

1. (Islam) mosque [from 18th c.] (Classifier: 座 m c; 間／间 c)
   • 1705, 戒顯, “現果随錄”, in 吳震方, editor, 説鈴‎^[1]:

     陳益修字玉笥山東濟寜州人為諸生時見囬囬敎門楊生花等欲毁𨵿帝廟擴大囬囬清真寺 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     陈益修字玉笥山东济宁州人为诸生时见回回教门杨生花等欲毁关帝庙扩大回回清真寺 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     Chén Yìxiū zì Yùsì Shāndōng Jǐníng Zhōu rén wéi zhūshēng shí jiàn Huíhuí jiàomén Yáng Shēnghuā děng yù huǐ Guāndìmiào kuòdà Huíhuí qīngzhēnsì [Pinyin]

     Chen Yixiu, courtesy name Yusi, comes from Jining Prefecture, Shandong. When he was an imperial scholar, he saw that the Muslims Yang Shenghua and his colleagues wanted to destroy the temple of Lord Guan and expand the Muslim mosque

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 清真寺 (“mosque”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		清真寺, 禮拜寺
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	清真寺, 回教寺
	Malaysia	回教堂
	Singapore	回教堂
Central Plains Mandarin	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	禮拜寺, 賣斯志得
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	清真寺, 賣斯志得
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	清真寺
Cantonese	Hong Kong	清真寺, 回教寺, 回教廟
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	回教堂
	Singapore (Guangfu)	馬拉廟, 馬拉堂
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	清真寺
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	清真寺
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	清真寺
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	清真寺
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	清真寺
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	清真寺
Southern Min	Xiamen	清真寺
	Taipei	清真寺 GT, 回教寺 GT, 回教堂 GT
	Penang (Hokkien)	番仔庵, 回教堂, 回教廟
	Singapore (Hokkien)	番仔廟, 番囝廟
Wu	Shanghai	回教堂
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Hyponyms

• 寺

Related terms

• 清真 (qīngzhēn)
• 清真教 (Qīngzhēnjiào)