太君

Chinese

		too (much); very; extremely too (much); very; extremely; highest; greatest	monarch; lord; gentleman monarch; lord; gentleman; ruler
simp. and trad. (太君)		太	君

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tàijūn

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄞˋ ㄐㄩㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): taai³ gwan¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tàijūn → tàijun (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄞˋ ㄐㄩㄣ → ㄊㄞˋ ˙ㄐㄩㄣ (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tàijyůn
  - Wade–Giles: tʻai⁴-chün⁵
  - Yale: tài-jyun
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tay.jiun
  - Palladius: тайцзюнь (tajczjunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaɪ̯⁵¹ t͡ɕyn⁵⁵/ → /tʰaɪ̯⁵¹ d͡ʑ̥yn¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: taai³ gwan¹
  - Yale: taai gwān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: taai³ gwan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tai³ guen¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːi̯³³ kʷɐn⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: thajH kjun

Rime
Character	太	君
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	泰 (25)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	他蓋切	舉云切
Baxter	thajH	kjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑi^H/	/kɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑi^H/	/kiun/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑi^H/	/kiuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰaj^H/	/kun/
Li Rong	/tʰɑi^H/	/kiuən/
Wang Li	/tʰɑi^H/	/kĭuən/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tʰɑi^H/	/ki̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tài	jūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taai³	gwan¹

Etymology 1

Noun

太君

(historical) title for the mother of an official in imperial China
(honorific) term of address for mother of the person the speaker is addressing

Etymology 2

Phono-semantic matching from Japanese 大人(たいじん) (taijin), from Middle Chinese 大人 (MC dajH|daH nyin) (Sun, 2015).

Noun

太君

(historical, now derogatory) term of address for Japanese officials in Japan-occupied regions of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War