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신주

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신주
Part of speech
noun
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spirit tablet; memorial tablet; ancestral tablet

A wooden tablet kept at a shrine or Buddhist temple on which the name of a deceased person is written.

Idioms

신주 모시듯

as if enshrining one's ancestral tablet

The manner of treating or keeping something carefully and attentively as one cherishes it very much.