Chinese edit

day; sky; heaven river
simp. and trad.
(天河)
 
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Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (6) (33)
Final () (85) (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV I
Fanqie
Baxter then ha
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰen/ /ɦɑ/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰen/ /ɦɑ/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɛn/ /ɣɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰɛn/ /ɦa/
Li
Rong
/tʰen/ /ɣɑ/
Wang
Li
/tʰien/ /ɣɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰien/ /ɣɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tiān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
tin1 ho4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tiān xiān
Middle
Chinese
‹ then › ‹ xen › ‹ ha ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ˁi[n]/ /*l̥ˁi[n]/ (W dialect: l̥ˁ- > Hàn-time *xˁ- > MC x-) /*[C.ɡ]ˁaj/
English heaven heaven river

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 12387 7459
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰl'iːn/ /*ɡaːl/

Proper noun edit

天河

  1. (colloquial) Milky Way
  2. () Tianhe (a district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China)

Synonyms edit

  • (Milky Way):

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (天河):

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
てん
Grade: 1

Grade: 5
goon
 天河 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology edit

From Middle Chinese 天河 (*ten *ha, literally heavenly river). Compare Mandarin 天河 (Tiānhé, Milky Way), Vietnamese thiên hà (galaxy).

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

(てん)() (Tenga

  1. (astronomy) Synonym of 銀河系 (Gingakei, Milky Way)
  2. Tianhe (a district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China)

See also edit

References edit

Korean edit

Hanja in this term

Proper noun edit

天河 (Cheonha) (hangeul 천하)

  1. Hanja form? of 천하 (Milky Way).

Vietnamese edit

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun edit

天河

  1. chữ Hán form of thiên hà (galaxy).