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): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ 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 t͡sʰœːŋ²¹/

Proper noun

天長

(～市) Tianchang (a county-level city of 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)^?}

the Tenchō era, 824–834

See also

弘仁(こうにん) (Kōnin) (era preceding Tenchō)
承和(じょうわ) (Jōwa) (era following Tenchō)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN