田中

Chinese

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

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 田(た)中(なか) (Tanaka).

"Tianzhong Township": Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 田(た)中(なか) (Tanaka), from Min Nan 田中央 (Chhân-tiong-ng).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Tiánzhōng

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄓㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tin⁴ zung¹
Min Nan (POJ): Tiân-tiong

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/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tiân-tiong
  - Tâi-lô: Tiân-tiong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: diendiofng
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɛn²³⁻³³ tiɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tiɛn²⁴⁻¹¹ tiɔŋ⁴⁴/

Proper noun

田中

(～鎮) Tianzhong (an urban township in Changhua County, Taiwan)
An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 田中, Tanaka

Japanese

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

Etymology

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

Proper noun

田(た)中(なか) • (Tanaka)

a surname The 4th most common surname in Japan.[1]

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)

References

Japanese Wikipedia, 姓#日本の主な姓

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