天啟

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	to open; to start
trad. (天啟/天啓)		天	啟/啓
simp. (天启)		天	启

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Tiānqǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄑㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ kai²

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Tiānqǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄑㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Tiancǐ
    • Wade–Giles: Tʻien¹-chʻi³
    • Yale: Tyān-chǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tianchii
    • Palladius: Тяньци (Tjanʹci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin¹ kai²
    • Yale: tīn kái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ kai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ kei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ kʰɐi̯³⁵/

Proper noun

天啟 (historical)

1. (～帝) the Tianqi Emperor (the sixteenth emperor of the Ming dynasty)
2. the Tianqi era (a Chinese era name):
   1. The era proclaimed by Yuan Faseng of Northern Wei, a rebel who declared himself emperor, in 525.
   2. The era proclaimed by Xiao Zhuang of Liang, a claimant to the Southern dynasties throne, from 558 to 560.
   3. The second era of King Zhaocheng of Nanzhao, from 840 to 859.
   4. The third era of Xu Shouhui as emperor of Tianwan, from approximately 1356 to 1359.
   5. The first era of Ming Yuzhen as emperor of Ming Xia, from 1361 to 1362.
   6. The era of the Tianqi Emperor's reign, from 1621 to 1627.