"Altar" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 祭坛 | jì tán | altar |  |
| 圣餐台 | shèng cān tái | (Christian) altar | |
| 越俎代庖 | yuè zǔ dài páo | lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom) / fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs / to take matters into one's own hands |  |
| 长明灯 | cháng míng dēng | altar lamp burning day and night | |
| 刀俎 | dāo zǔ | sacrificial knife and altar | |
| 祊 |  bēng | side altar inside ancestral temple | |
| 壝 | wěi | mound / embankment / the earthen altar to the god of the soil | |
| 祈仙台 | qí xiān tái | memorial altar / platform for praying to immortals | |
| 本尊 | běn zūn | (Buddhism) yidam (one's chosen meditational deity) / the principal object of worship on a Buddhist altar / (of a monk who has the ability to appear in multiple places at the same time) the honored one himself (contrasted with his alternate forms, 分身[fen1 shen1]) / (fig.) (jocular) the genuine article / the real McCoy / the man himself / the woman herself / the original manifestation of sth (not a spin-off or a clone) | |
