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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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天
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天
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災
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| Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
tiān
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xiān
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zāi
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ then ›
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‹ xen ›
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‹ tsoj ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*l̥ˁi/
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/*l̥ˁi/ (W dialect: l̥ˁ- > Hàn-time *xˁ- > MC x-)
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/*ˁə/
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| English
|
heaven
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heaven
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calamity
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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天
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災
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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12387
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16487
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Phonetic
component
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天
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災
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Rime
group
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眞
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之
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Rime
subdivision
|
1
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
|
天
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烖
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Old
Chinese
|
/*qʰl'iːn/
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/*ʔslɯː/
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| Notes
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烖籀文
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Noun
天災
- natural disaster; act of God (Classifier: 場／场; 次; 種／种)
Synonyms
- 亂兒 / 乱儿 (luànr) (dialectal)
- 人禍 / 人祸 (rénhuò) (man-made disaster)
- 劫 (jié) (Buddhism)
- 劫煞 (Hokkien)
- 劫難 / 劫难 (jiénàn)
- 厄 (literary, or in compounds)
- 大禍 / 大祸 (dàhuò) (major catastrophe)
- 大難 / 大难 (dànàn) (major catastrophe)
- 央厄 (yāng'è) (literary)
- 奇禍 / 奇祸 (qíhuò) (literary, unexpected disaster)
- 巨禍 / 巨祸 (jùhuò) (literary)
- 患 (huàn) (literary, or in compounds)
- 慘事 / 惨事 (cǎnshì)
- 慘劇 / 惨剧 (cǎnjù)
- 慘禍 / 惨祸 (cǎnhuò) (tragic accident)
- 沙𧐔 (sua1 sab4) (Teochew)
- 浩劫 (hàojié)
- 災 / 灾 (zāi) (literary, or in compounds)
- 災劫 / 灾劫 (zāijié) (literary)
- 災厄 / 灾厄 (zāi'è) (literary)
- 災害 / 灾害 (zāihài)
- 災殃 / 灾殃 (zāiyāng)
- 災禍 / 灾祸 (zāihuò)
- 災變 / 灾变 (zāibiàn) (literary, natural disaster)
- 災難 / 灾难 (zāinàn)
- 癰疽 / 痈疽 (yōngjū) (figurative)
- 眚沴 (shěnglì) (literary)
- 禍 / 祸 (huò) (literary, or in compounds)
- 禍事 / 祸事 (huòshì)
- 禍害 / 祸害 (huòhài)
- 禍息 / 祸息 (ho5 si6) (Xiang)
- 禍患 / 祸患 (huòhuàn)
- 禍殃 / 祸殃 (huòyāng)
Derived terms
Descendants
Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
天災 • (tensai)
- natural disaster
2015 September 14, Kaori Shoji, “When disaster strikes in Japan, keep calm and carry a diaper”, in The Japan Times, retrieved 2023-04-11:The Japanese disaster comes in many forms, and saigai include tensai (天災, literally, heaven-sent disasters — i.e., natural ones) [...]
Derived terms
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