店長

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See also: 店长

Chinese

		inn; shop; store	long; length; forever long; length; forever; always; constantly; chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop
trad. (店長)		店	長
simp. (店长)		店	长

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 店(てん)長(ちょう) (tenchō), which started entering Mainland China in the late 20th century.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): diànzhǎng

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄓㄤˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dim³ zoeng²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiàm-tiúⁿ / tiàm-tióⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: diànzhǎng
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄓㄤˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: diànjhǎng
  - Wade–Giles: tien⁴-chang³
  - Yale: dyàn-jǎng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diannjaang
  - Palladius: дяньчжан (djanʹčžan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: dim³ zoeng²
  - Yale: dim jéung
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dim³ dzoeng²
  - Guangdong Romanization: dim³ zêng²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːm³³ t͡sœːŋ³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiàm-tiúⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tiàm-tiúnn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: diarmdviuo
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiam²¹⁻⁴¹ tiũ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tiam²¹⁻⁵³ tiũ⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tiam⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tiũ⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tiam¹¹⁻⁵³ tiũ⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiàm-tióⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tiàm-tiónn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: diarmdvioir
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiam²¹⁻⁵³ tiɔ̃⁵³/

Noun

店長

manager of a shop

References

^ 汉语外来词词典 (in Chinese), 1984, page 271

Japanese

Kanji in this term
店	長
てん Grade: 2	ちょう Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) てんちょー (Atamadaka – )
IPA^(key):

Noun

店(てん)長(ちょう) • (tenchō)

manager (of a shop)

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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