天罡

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	(stars)
simp. and trad. (天罡)		天	罡

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tiāngāng

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢㄍㄤ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): teng¹ gorng¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thian-kong

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tiāngāng
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢㄍㄤ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tiangang
  - Wade–Giles: tʻien¹-kang¹
  - Yale: tyān-gāng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tiangang
  - Palladius: тяньган (tjanʹgan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ kɑŋ⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: teng¹ gorng¹ [Phonetic: teng⁵ ngorng¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: teng-go̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɛŋ⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(k-)ŋɒŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: teng¹ gorng¹ [Phonetic: teng⁵ ngorng¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɛŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ^(k-)ŋɒŋ⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-kong
  - Tâi-lô: thian-kong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tienkofng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɛn³³ kɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kɔŋ⁴⁴/

Noun

天罡

(Chinese astronomy, Taoism) Big Dipper
(Chinese astronomy) handle of the Big Dipper
(Taoism) Name for a heavenly spirit. According to Daoist religious texts, there are 36 in all.

Derived terms

三十六天罡 (sānshíliù tiāngāng)
天罡囝
天罡地煞
天罡坯
天罡婆
天罡幫 / 天罡帮
天罡摜 / 天罡掼
天罡星
天罡殘 / 天罡残
天罡目
天罡神
天罡面
天罡頭 / 天罡头
走馬天罡 / 走马天罡

References

小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “天罡”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “天罡”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[2] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC