(zōng jiào) - religion in Mandarin
zōngjiàoTraditional: 宗教
Translation
religion
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Word origin
A compound of 宗 (zōng, ancestral clan, lineage) and 教 (jiào, teaching), coined to render the Western concept of religion.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 宗 (zōng, lineage) + 教 (jiào, teaching)
Stroke order
宗
教
Examples
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He is very interested in religion.
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This country has many different religions.
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Religion and culture are closely bound together.
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She never talks about her own religious beliefs.
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This city has a very old religious building.
宗教 (zōng jiào) is religion as a category: the institution, the system, the field of study. 宗教信仰 is religious belief and 宗教自由 is freedom of religion.
Individual faiths get their own names and none of them needs 宗教 attached: 佛教 is Buddhism, 基督教 is Christianity, 伊斯兰教 is Islam. The shared 教 in those names is the same character.
The trap is asking someone 你的宗教是什么. It lands like a form on a clipboard. What people actually ask is 你信教吗 (do you follow a religion) or 你有宗教信仰吗, and even those are treated as a private matter across most of the mainland.
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Start your free week (no card)This word is taught in chapter 31, lesson 11: 宗教, 中央, 观点 and 7 more words.