屯田

Chinese

		to store up; to station (soldiers); difficult to store up; to station (soldiers); difficult; stingy	field; farm
simp. and trad. (屯田)		屯	田

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): túntián

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄣˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tyun⁴ tin⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tûn-tiân / thûn-tiân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: túntián
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄣˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: túntián
    • Wade–Giles: tʻun²-tʻien²
    • Yale: twún-tyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twentyan
    • Palladius: туньтянь (tunʹtjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯ən³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tyun⁴ tin⁴
    • Yale: tyùhn tìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tyn⁴ tin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tün⁴ tin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰyːn²¹ tʰiːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tûn-tiân
    • Tâi-lô: tûn-tiân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dundieen
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tun²⁴⁻²² tiɛn²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thûn-tiân
    • Tâi-lô: thûn-tiân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tundieen
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰun¹³⁻²² tiɛn¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰun²⁴⁻²² tiɛn²⁴/

Verb

屯田

1. (historical) to have garrison troops or peasants open up wasteland and grow food grain (a policy pursued by feudal rulers since the Han dynasty)

Related terms

• 屯墾／屯垦 (túnkěn)

Noun

屯田

1. (literary) reclaimed land