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Chinese
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day; sky; heaven
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to own; to host; master to own; to host; master; lord; primary
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simp. and trad. (天主)
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天
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主
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Etymology
- Lord of Heaven (in Chinese folk religion)
- Attested earliest in Records of the Grand Historian:
- God (in Christianity, chiefly Catholicism)
- First attested in True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven (《天主實錄》), completed by Italian Jesuit priest and missionary Michele Ruggieri in 1584 (Wang, 2012), as a semantic readaptation of Chinese 天主 (Tiānzhǔ, “heavenly emperor; heavenly God”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
天主
- (Chinese folk religion) Lord of Heaven
- (chiefly Catholicism) God, the Lord
Synonyms
Terms for God in different branches of Christianity
Derived terms
Descendants
Others:
Japanese
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 天主 (then tsyuX).
Earliest attested in Japanese no later than 1581. It may or may not be coincidental that Japanese 天主 (Tenshu) was coined to denote the Christian God around the same time as when Chinese 天主 was adopted for the same purpose.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
天主 • (Tenshu)
- (Christianity) the Lord of Heaven; God
Korean
Proper noun
天主 • (Cheonju) (hangeul 천주)
- hanja form? of 천주 (“the Lord of Heaven; God”)
Vietnamese
Proper noun
天主
- chữ Hán form of Thiên Chúa (“God, the Lord of Heaven”).