皇天

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Chinese

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emperor; surname day; sky; heaven
simp. and trad.
(皇天)
anagram 天皇

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (33) (6)
Final () (102) (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () I IV
Fanqie
Baxter hwang then
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦwɑŋ/ /tʰen/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷɑŋ/ /tʰen/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuɑŋ/ /tʰɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwaŋ/ /tʰɛn/
Li
Rong
/ɣuɑŋ/ /tʰen/
Wang
Li
/ɣuɑŋ/ /tʰien/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣwɑŋ/ /tʰien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huáng tiān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
wong4 tin1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huáng huáng tiān xiān
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwang › ‹ hwang › ‹ then › ‹ xen ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɢ]ʷˁaŋ/ /*[ɢ]ʷˁaŋ/ /*l̥ˁi[n]/ /*l̥ˁi[n]/ (W dialect: l̥ˁ- > Hàn-time *xˁ- > MC x-)
English yellow and white spotted sovereign heaven heaven

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. 12696 12387
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡʷaːŋ/ /*qʰl'iːn/
Notes

Noun

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皇天

  1. the great and almighty heavens above
  2. (Wenzhounese) oh my God

Synonyms

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(oh my God):

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Derived terms

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