天地

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Chinese

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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

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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[n]/ /*l̥ˁi[n]/ (W dialect: l̥ˁ- > Hàn-time *xˁ- > MC x-) /*[l]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. *[t] 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

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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

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  • (heaven and earth): 乾坤 (qiánkūn)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (天地):

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
てん
Grade: 1

Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(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

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See also

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Further reading

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References

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  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

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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天地 (cheonji) (hangeul 천지)

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

Vietnamese

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chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

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天地

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