田中

Chinese

		field; farm	middle; centre; within middle; centre; within; among; in; while (doing sth); during; China; Chinese; hit (the mark)
simp. and trad. (田中)		田	中

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Tiánzhōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄓㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin⁴ zung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Tiánzhōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄓㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Tiánjhong
    • Wade–Giles: Tʻien²-chung¹
    • Yale: Tyán-jūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tyanjong
    • Palladius: Тяньчжун (Tjanʹčžun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin⁴ zung¹
    • Yale: tìhn jūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin⁴ dzung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin⁴ zung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn²¹ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 田中

1. A Japanese surname: Tanaka

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Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
田	中
た Grade: 1	なか Grade: 1
kun’yomi

田 (ta, “paddy”) + 中 (naka, “center”) = “center of the paddy”

Proper noun

田(た)中(なか) or 田中(proper) • (tanaka or proper) [[Category:Japanese
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1. a surname The 5th most common surname in Japan.

Coordinate terms

• 佐(さ)藤(とう) (Satō), 鈴(すず)木(き) (Suzuki), 高(たか)橋(はし) (Takahashi), 渡(わた)辺(なべ) (Watanabe), 田(た)中(なか) (Tanaka)