天河

Chinese

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

Pronunciation



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

天河

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

Synonyms

  • (Milky Way):

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (天河):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
てん
Grade: 1

Grade: 5
goon

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tẽ̞ŋɡa̠]

Proper noun

(てん)() • (Tenga) 

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

See also

References

Korean

Hanja in this term

Proper noun

天河 • (Cheonha) (hangeul 천하)

  1. Hanja form? of 천하 (Milky Way).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

天河

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