天長

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	long; length; forever long; length; forever; always; constantly; chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop
trad. (天長)		天	長
simp. (天长)		天	长
anagram		長天／长天

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Tiāncháng

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢㄔㄤˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ coeng⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Tiāncháng
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢㄔㄤˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Tiancháng
  - Wade–Giles: Tʻien¹-chʻang²
  - Yale: Tyān-cháng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tiancharng
  - Palladius: Тяньчан (Tjanʹčan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰjɛn⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tin¹ coeng⁴
  - Yale: tīn chèuhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ tsoeng⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ cêng⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ t͡ʃʰœːŋ²¹/

Proper noun

天長

(～市) Tianchang (a county-level city in Chuzhou, Anhui, China)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
天	長
てん Grade: 1	ちょう Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

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Pronunciation

(Tokyo) てんちょー [tèńchóó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
IPA^(key): [tẽ̞ɲ̟t͡ɕo̞ː]

Proper noun

天(てん)長(ちょう) • (Tenchō) ^{←てんちやう (tentyau)^?}

Tenchō era (January 824–January 834)

Usage notes

天長 (“Tenchō era”) is preceded by 弘仁 (こうにん, Kōnin) and followed by 承和 (じょうわ, Jōwa).

References

2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Further reading

Tenchō on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
天長 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja

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