天花板

Chinese

		heaven flower; flower of the sky; divine flower, stated in the Lotus Sutra as of four kinds, two white and two red	board; plank; plate board; plank; plate; slab
trad. (天花板)		天花	板
simp. #(天花板)		天花	板

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): tiānhuābǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄏㄨㄚ ㄅㄢˇ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): tian¹ hua¹ ban³

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): тянхуабан (ti͡anhuaban, I-I-II)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ faa¹ baan²
• Gan (Wiktionary): tien¹ fa ban³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): thiên-fâ-pán

  (Meixian, Guangdong): tiên¹ fa¹ ban³

• Jin (Wiktionary): tie¹ hua¹ ban²
• Northern Min (KCR): tíng-huá-bǎing
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thian-hoa-pán
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): tienn¹ fa¹ ban³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiānhuābǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄏㄨㄚ ㄅㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tianhuabǎn
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien¹-hua¹-pan³
    • Yale: tyān-hwā-bǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tianhuabaan
    • Palladius: тяньхуабань (tjanʹxuabanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ xu̯ä⁵⁵ pän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: tian¹ hua¹ ban³
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: tianxuaban
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiɛn⁵⁵ xua⁵⁵ pan⁵³/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: тянхуабан (ti͡anhuaban, I-I-II)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiæ̃²⁴ xua²⁴ pæ̃⁵¹/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin¹ faa¹ baan²
    • Yale: tīn fā báan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ faa¹ baan²
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ fa¹ ban²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ faː⁵⁵ paːn³⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: tien¹ fa ban³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiɛn⁴² fa² pan²¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thiên-fâ-pán
    • Hakka Romanization System: tien´ fa´ ban`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tian¹ fa¹ ban³
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ fa²⁴ pan³¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: tiên¹ fa¹ ban³
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰiɛn⁴⁴ fa⁴⁴⁻³⁵ pan³¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: tie¹ hua¹ ban²
    • Sinological IPA (old-style, no sandhi): /tʰxie¹¹ xua¹¹ pæ̃⁵³/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: tíng-huá-bǎing
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiŋ⁵⁴ xua⁵⁴ paiŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-hoa-pán
    • Tâi-lô: thian-hua-pán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tienhoa'parn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɛn³³ hua³³ pan⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² hua⁴⁴⁻²² pan⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ hua⁴⁴⁻³³ pan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ hua⁴⁴⁻³³ pan⁵³/
    • IPA (Penang): /tʰiɛn³³⁻²¹ hua³³⁻²¹ pan⁴⁴⁵/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: tienn¹ fa¹ ban³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ẽ³³ ɸa̠³³ pan⁴¹/

Noun

天花板

1. ceiling

   天花板上掛著一盞名貴的吊燈。 [MSC, trad.]
   天花板上挂着一盏名贵的吊灯。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tiānhuābǎn shàng guà zhe yī zhǎn míngguì de diàodēng. [Pinyin]

   A precious chandelier hung from the ceiling.

2. (figurative) ceiling; upper limit
3. (Dungan, Jin, anatomy) palate; upper jaw; maxilla

Synonyms

• (ceiling): (Hokkien) 天羅板／天罗板, 天河板

Dialectal synonyms of 天花板 (“ceiling”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		天花板
Mandarin	Harbin	天花板
	Yantai (Muping)	天棚, 仰棚
	Jinan	天花板
	Xi'an	天花板
	Yinchuan	仰塵, 頂棚
	Xining	仰塵, 頂棚, 天花板
	Ürümqi	仰塵, 天花板
	Chengdu	天花板, 天花板兒
	Guiyang	天花板
	Liuzhou	天花板
	Yangzhou	天花板
	Nanjing	天花板
Cantonese	Hong Kong	天花板, 天花
	Dongguan	浪層, 天花板
Gan	Nanchang	天花板
	Lichuan	天花板
	Pingxiang	天花板
Hakka	Meixian	天花板
	Yudu	天花板, 倒板, 天棚
Huizhou	Jixi	天花板
Jin	Taiyuan	仰塵, 頂棚, 天花板 cement
	Xinzhou	幔子, 仰塵
Northern Min	Jian'ou	天花板
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	天花板
Southern Min	Xiamen	天羅板, 天篷
	Quanzhou	天篷
	Taipei	天篷
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	天篷
	Kaohsiung	天篷, 天遮
	Yilan	天篷, 天遮
	Taichung	天篷
	Tainan	天篷
	Hsinchu	天篷
	Kinmen	天花板
	Penghu (Magong)	天花板, 天遮
	Penang (Hokkien)	天花板
	Singapore (Hokkien)	倒吊枋
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	天花板
Wu	Shanghai	天花板
	Shanghai (Chongming)	天面
	Suzhou	天花板
	Danyang	天花板
	Hangzhou	天花板
	Ningbo	天花板
	Jinhua	天花板
Xiang	Changsha	天花板
	Loudi	天花板

• (palate): 上顎／上颚 (shàng'è), 上頜／上颌 (shànghé); (Eastern Min) 上岸; (Hokkien) 頂頷／顶颔, 上疆

Derived terms

• 玻璃天花板 (bōli tiānhuābǎn)

 

See also

• 地板 (dìbǎn)
• 屋頂／屋顶 (wūdǐng)