玉皇

Chinese

		jade	emperor; surname
simp. and trad. (玉皇)		玉	皇

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Yùhuáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ ㄏㄨㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk⁶ wong⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Yùhuáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ ㄏㄨㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yùhuáng
    • Wade–Giles: Yü⁴-huang²
    • Yale: Yù-hwáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Yuhhwang
    • Palladius: Юйхуан (Jujxuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹ xu̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: juk⁶ wong⁴
    • Yale: yuhk wòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁹ wong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug⁶ wong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚² wɔːŋ²¹/

Proper noun

玉皇

1. (Chinese mythology, Chinese folk religion, Taoism) the Jade Emperor

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 玉皇大帝 (“Jade Emperor”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		玉皇大帝, 玉帝
Mandarin	Taiwan	玉皇大帝
	Yantai (Muping)	玉皇大帝
	Lanzhou	玉皇爺
	Singapore	玉皇大帝, 玉帝
Cantonese	Hong Kong	玉皇大帝, 玉帝
Gan	Lichuan	玉皇大帝
Hakka	Yudu	玉皇大帝, 玉皇
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	玉皇大帝, 天公
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	玉皇大帝, 天公, 天公爺, 玉皇上帝, 天神爺
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	玉皇大帝, 天公, 天神爺, 天帝, 玉帝, 玉皇, 玉皇上帝
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	玉皇大帝, 天公
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	玉皇大帝, 天公
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	玉皇大帝, 天公
Huizhou	Jixi	玉皇大帝
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	玉皇大帝, 玉皇
Southern Min	Xiamen	玉皇大帝
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	玉皇大帝
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	玉皇上帝
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	玉皇大帝, 天公
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	玉皇大帝
	Yilan (Toucheng)	玉皇大帝, 天公
	Tainan	玉皇大帝, 天公
	Penghu (Xiyu)	玉皇大帝
	Penang (Hokkien)	天公
	Singapore (Hokkien)	天公
	Manila (Hokkien)	天公
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	玉皇大帝
Wu	Wenzhou	玉皇大帝
	Jinhua	玉皇大帝
Xiang	Changsha	玉皇菩薩, 玉皇大帝
	Loudi	玉皇大帝, 玉帝老子

Derived terms

• 玉皇上帝 (Yùhuáng Shàngdì)
• 玉皇大帝 (Yùhuáng Dàdì)
• 玉皇廟／玉皇庙 (Yùhuángmiào)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (玉皇):

• → Japanese: 玉(ぎょく)皇(こう) (Gyokukō)
• → Korean: 옥황(玉皇) (Okhwang)
• → Vietnamese: Ngọc Hoàng (玉皇)

→ English: Jade Emperor (calque)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
玉	皇

Noun

玉皇

1. chữ Hán form of Ngọc Hoàng (“Jade Emperor”).