千字文

Chinese

		thousand	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word	language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
simp. and trad. (千字文)		千	字	文

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Qiānzìwén

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ ㄗˋ ㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cin¹ zi⁶ man⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Qiānzìwén
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ ㄗˋ ㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Cianzìhwún
    • Wade–Giles: Chʻien¹-tzŭ⁴-wên²
    • Yale: Chyān-dz̀-wén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Chiantzyhwen
    • Palladius: Цяньцзывэнь (Cjanʹczyvɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ t͡sz̩⁵¹ wən³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiānzìwénr
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ ㄗˋ ㄨㄣˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cianzìhwúnr
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien¹-tzŭ⁴-wên²-ʼrh
    • Yale: chyān-dz̀-wénr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiantzyhwel
    • Palladius: цяньцзывэньр (cjanʹczyvɛnʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ t͡sz̩⁵¹ wəɻ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cin¹ zi⁶ man⁴
    • Yale: chīn jih màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsin¹ dzi⁶ man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: qin¹ ji⁶ men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn⁵⁵ t͡siː²² mɐn²¹/

Proper noun

千字文

1. Thousand Character Classic (poem used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (千字文):

• → Korean: 천자문(千字文) (cheonjamun)
• → Vietnamese: Thiên tự văn (千字文)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
千	字	文

Proper noun

千字文

1. chữ Hán form of Thiên tự văn (“Thousand Character Classic”).