蒼天

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See also: 苍天

Chinese

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dark blue; fly; musca
dark blue; fly; musca; deep green
 
day; sky; heaven
trad. (蒼天)
simp. (苍天)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Initial () (14) (14) (6)
Final () (101) (101) (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () I I IV
Fanqie
Baxter tshang tshangX then
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ /t͡sʰɑŋX/ /tʰen/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ /t͡sʰɑŋX/ /tʰen/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ /t͡sʰɑŋX/ /tʰɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰaŋ/ /t͡sʰaŋX/ /tʰɛn/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ /t͡sʰɑŋX/ /tʰen/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ /t͡sʰɑŋX/ /tʰien/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ /t͡sʰɑŋX/ /tʰien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cāng cǎng tiān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cong1 cong2 tin1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
cāng tiān xiān
Middle
Chinese
‹ tshang › ‹ then › ‹ xen ›
Old
Chinese
/*[tsʰ]ˁaŋ/ /*l̥ˁi[n]/ /*l̥ˁi[n]/ (W dialect: l̥ˁ- > Hàn-time *xˁ- > MC x-)
English deep blue or green 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 # 1/2 2/2 1/1
No. 1126 1131 12387
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰaːŋ/ /*sʰaːŋʔ/ /*qʰl'iːn/

Noun

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蒼天

  1. (literary) heaven; firmament
  2. (literary) blue sky
  3. (literary) spring

Synonyms

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
そう
Jinmeiyō
てん
Grade: 1
on'yomi

Noun

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(そう)(てん) (sōten

  1. (literary) the blue sky; the azure sky; the heavens
    Synonyms: 青空 (aozora), 蒼穹 (sōkyū), 蒼空 (sōkū)