天漢

See also: 天汉

Chinese

day; sky; heaven Chinese; name of a dynasty; man
trad. (天漢)
simp. (天汉)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (6) (32)
Final () (85) (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV I
Fanqie
Baxter then xanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰen/ /hɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰen/ /hɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɛn/ /xɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰɛn/ /hanH/
Li
Rong
/tʰen/ /xɑnH/
Wang
Li
/tʰien/ /xɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰien/ /xɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tiān hàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
tin1 hon3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tiān xiān hàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ then › ‹ xen › ‹ xanH ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ˁi[n]/ /*l̥ˁi[n]/ (W dialect: l̥ˁ- > Hàn-time *xˁ- > MC x-) /*n̥ˁar-s/ (W dialect: *n̥- > MC x-, *-r > *-n)
English heaven heaven (river name)

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 4905
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰl'iːn/ /*hnaːns/

Proper noun

天漢

  1. (literary) Milky Way
  2. (historical) One of the era names of the Emperor Wu of Han, used from 100 BCE to 97 BCE

Synonyms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
てん
Grade: 1
かん
Grade: 3
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) んかん [tèńkáń] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA(key): [tẽ̞ŋkã̠ɴ]

Proper noun

(てん)(かん) • (Tenkan) 

  1. (astronomy) Synonym of 銀河系 (Gingakei, Milky Way)

See also

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