宗教

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• 宗教 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 宗教 (Cantonese)
• 宗教 (Classical)
• 宗教 (Gan)
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• cŭng-gáu (Eastern Min)
• chong-kàu (Southern Min)
• 宗教 (Wu)

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 宗(しゅう)教(きょう) (shūkyō).

宗教

1. religion; the sacred

   信仰宗教  ―  xìnyǎng zōngjiào  ―  to have religious faith

   宗教教育  ―  zōngjiào jiàoyù  ―  religious education

   民族宗教  ―  mínzú zōngjiào  ―  ethnoreligious

   世俗和宗教之間的關係
   世俗和宗教之间的关系

   shìsú hé zōngjiào zhījiān de guānxì

   the relationship between the secular and the sacred

• (Dungan) 教門／教门

Ultimately from Middle Chinese, from the two nouns 宗 (shū, “doctrine”) + 教 (kyō, “teaching”). First attested with this straightforward meaning in a compilation of Classical Chinese-style poetry from 1403.

Repurposed near the start of the Meiji period to translate English religion, which sense is first attested in 1866.

• (Tokyo) しゅうきょー (Atamadaka – )
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• (Kyoto) しゅー​きょー  (Teiki)

宗(しゅう)教(きょう) • (shūkyō) ^{←しうけう (siukeu)?}

1. religion

   Synonym: 法教 (hōkyō, archaic in this sense)

2. (Buddhism) the Buddha's doctrine and teachings; the doctrine and teachings of a specific Buddhist denomination

• 無(む)宗(しゅう)教(きょう) (mushūkyō, “irreligion, no religious affiliation”)
• 宗(しゅう)教(きょう)学(がく) (shūkyōgaku, “religiology, religious studies”)

• 教(きょう)祖(そ) (kyōso)
• 宗(しゅう)派(は) (shūha, “religious sect”)

• → Chinese: 宗教 (zōngjiào)
• → Korean: 종교 (jonggyo)
• → Vietnamese: tôn giáo

宗教 • (jonggyo) (hangeul 종교)

1. alternative form of 宗敎 (“religion”)

宗教

1. chữ Hán form of tôn giáo (“religion”)