登天

Chinese

		to go up; to climb; ascend to go up; to climb; ascend; mount; register; note; to publish; to issue; to record	day; sky; heaven
simp. and trad. (登天)		登	天

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dēngtiān

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄥ ㄊㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dang¹ tin¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): teng-thian

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dēngtiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄥ ㄊㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dengtian
    • Wade–Giles: têng¹-tʻien¹
    • Yale: dēng-tyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dengtian
    • Palladius: дэнтянь (dɛntjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɤŋ⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dang¹ tin¹
    • Yale: dāng tīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dang¹ tin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: deng¹ tin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐŋ⁵⁵ tʰiːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teng-thian
    • Tâi-lô: ting-thian
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dengtiefn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɪŋ³³ tʰiɛn³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛn⁴⁴/

Verb

登天

1. to climb up to the sky; (of a spacecraft) to enter space

Derived terms

• 一步登天 (yībùdēngtiān)
• 難如登天／难如登天 (nánrúdēngtiān)
• 難若登天／难若登天 (nánruòdēngtiān)