中堂

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Chinese

		middle; centre; within middle; centre; within; among; in; while (doing something); during; China; Chinese; hit (the mark)	(main) hall; large room
simp. and trad. (中堂)		中	堂

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhōngtáng

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥㄊㄤˊ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): doeng¹ dorng² / dyeng¹ dorng²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiong-tông

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhōngtáng
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥㄊㄤˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhongtáng
  - Wade–Giles: chung¹-tʻang²
  - Yale: jūng-táng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jongtarng
  - Palladius: чжунтан (čžuntan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰɑŋ³⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: doeng¹ dorng²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tœŋ⁵³³⁻²¹ tɒŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dyeng¹ dorng²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tyøŋ⁵³³⁻²¹ tɒŋ¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiong-tông
  - Tâi-lô: tiong-tông
  - Phofsit Daibuun: diongdoong
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɔŋ³³ tɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tɔŋ¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tɔŋ²³/

Noun

中堂

(literary) central hall; central room
(literary) a scroll hung in such a room
(literary) courtyard
(historical) prime minister; chancellor (in the Tang dynasty)
(historical) grand secretary; minister of state (in the Ming and Qing dynasties)

Synonyms

(central hall; central room): 堂屋 (tángwū)
(courtyard): 庭院 (tíngyuàn)
(prime minister; chancellor): 宰相 (zǎixiàng)
(grand secretary; minister of state): 大學士／大学士 (dàxuéshì)

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “中堂”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 144.

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