天地

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Chinese

day; sky; heaven
earth; ground; field
earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly
 
trad. (天地)
simp. #(天地)
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Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (6) (7)
Final () (85) (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV III
Fanqie
Baxter then dijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰen/ /diɪH/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰen/ /diH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɛn/ /djɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰɛn/ /diH/
Li
Rong
/tʰen/ /diH/
Wang
Li
/tʰien/ /diH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰien/ /dʱiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tiān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
tin1 dei6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tiān xiān
Middle
Chinese
‹ then › ‹ xen › ‹ dijH ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ˁi/ /*l̥ˁi/ (W dialect: l̥ˁ- > Hàn-time *xˁ- > MC x-) /*ˁej-s/
English heaven heaven earth, ground

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 12387 14808
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰl'iːn/ /*l'els/

Noun

天地

  1. (literally) sky and ground; heaven and earth
  2. (figurative) world; the vast earth; universe
  3. (figurative, literary) two opposing things; contrasting items
  4. (figurative) scope; field; area; realm; sphere; range
  5. (figurative, now dialectal) situation; plight; predicament

Synonyms

  • (heaven and earth): 乾坤 (qiánkūn)

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (天地):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
てん
Grade: 1

Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(てん)() (tenchi

  1. heaven and earth; and all things in them.
  2. (by extension) top and bottom
    天地無用(てんちむよう) (tenchimuyō)
    天地(てんち)ひっくり(かえ)
    tenchi hikkurikaeshi
    (please add an English translation of this example)

Synonyms

See also

Further reading

References

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

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

天地 (cheonji) (hangeul 천지)

  1. hanja form? of 천지 (heaven and earth)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

天地

  1. chữ Hán form of thiên địa (heaven and earth).