天文
Chinese
| day; sky; heaven | language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (天文) |
天 | 文 | |
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Antonyms
- (astronomy): 地理 (dìlǐ)
Derived terms
Derived terms from 天文
Descendants
Sino-Xenic (天文):
Japanese
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 天 | 文 |
| てん Grade: 1 |
もん Grade: 1 |
| on’yomi | goon |
From Old Japanese,[1], from Literary Chinese 天文 (“heavenly phenomena; behaviors of heavenly bodies”). Compare modern Cantonese reading tin1 man4. Compare 人文 (jinbun, “humanity; humanism”, literally “human behaviors”), 水文学 (suimongaku, “hydrology”, literally “study of water behaviors”) and 地理 (chiri, “geography”, literally “nature of the earth”).
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 天文学 (tenmongaku): astronomy
- 天文方 (tenmonkata): (historical) an official government position during the Edo period, responsible for astronomy, calendars, and measurements, among other matters
- 天文航法 (tenmon kōhō): astronomical navigation, navigating by the stars
- 天文時 (tenmonji): astronomical time
- 天文台 (tenmondai): astronomical observatory
- 天文単位 (tenmon tan'i): astronomical unit, AU
- 天文潮 (tenmonchō): astronomical tide
- 天文道 (tenmondō): (historical) an ancient area of study of the movements of heavenly bodies and their influence on events, similar to astrology
- 天文時計 (tenmon-dokei): astronomical clock
- 天文博士 (tenmon hakase): (historical) an official government position in the Ritsuryō system, responsible for astronomy, calendars, and the training of astronomers
- 天文薄明 (tenmon hakumei): astronomical twilight
Etymology 2
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 天 | 文 |
| てん Grade: 1 |
ぶん Grade: 1 |
| on’yomi | kan’on |
From Middle Chinese 天文 (MC tʰen mɨun, literally “heavens + patterns”). Likely a later borrowing. Compare modern Min Nan reading thian-bûn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tẽ̞mbɯ̟̃ᵝɴ]
See also
- 年号 (nengō, “era name”)
Japanese era name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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