天漢

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See also: 天汉

Chinese[edit]

day; sky; heaven Chinese; name of a dynasty; man
trad. (天漢)
simp. (天汉)

Pronunciation[edit]



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (6) (32)
Final () (85) (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV I
Fanqie
Baxter then xanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰen/ /hɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰen/ /hɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɛn/ /xɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰɛn/ /hanH/
Li
Rong
/tʰen/ /xɑnH/
Wang
Li
/tʰien/ /xɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰien/ /xɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tiān hàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
tin1 hon3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tiān xiān hàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ then › ‹ xen › ‹ xanH ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ˁi[n]/ /*l̥ˁi[n]/ (W dialect: l̥ˁ- > Hàn-time *xˁ- > MC x-) /*n̥ˁar-s/ (W dialect: *n̥- > MC x-, *-r > *-n)
English heaven heaven (river name)

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 4905
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰl'iːn/ /*hnaːns/

Proper noun[edit]

天漢

  1. (literary) Milky Way
  2. (historical) One of the era names of the Emperor Wu of Han, used from 100 BCE to 97 BCE

Synonyms[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji in this term
てん
Grade: 1
かん
Grade: 3
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
天漢 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

(てん)(かん) (Tenkan

  1. (astronomy) Synonym of 銀河系 (Gingakei, Milky Way)

See also[edit]