燈火

See also: 灯火

Chinese

		lamp; light	fire; angry; fierce fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving
trad. (燈火)		燈	火
simp. (灯火)		灯	火

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dēnghuǒ

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄥㄏㄨㄛˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dang¹ fo²
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): tên-fó

(Changting, Changting Pinyin): deng¹ fo³
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): deng¹ huei³
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): teng-hé / teng-hér / teng-hóe

(Teochew, Peng'im): dêng¹ huê²
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹ten-hu₅

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dēnghuǒ
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄥㄏㄨㄛˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: denghuǒ
  - Wade–Giles: têng¹-huo³
  - Yale: dēng-hwǒ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: denghuoo
  - Palladius: дэнхо (dɛnxo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɤŋ⁵⁵ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: dang¹ fo²
  - Yale: dāng fó
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dang¹ fo²
  - Guangdong Romanization: deng¹ fo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐŋ⁵⁵ fɔː³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tên-fó
  - Hakka Romanization System: den^ˊ fo^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: den¹ fo³
  - Sinological IPA: /ten²⁴ fo³¹/
- (Changting)
  - Changting Pinyin: deng¹ fo³
  - Sinological IPA: /teŋ³³ fo⁴²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: deng¹ huei³ [Phonetic: deng⁵ nguei³]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: deng-hôi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛŋ⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(h-)ŋuei⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: deng¹ huei³ [Phonetic: deng⁵ nguei³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ^(h-)ŋuei³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teng-hé
  - Tâi-lô: ting-hé
  - Phofsit Daibuun: denghea
  - IPA (Taipei): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ he⁵³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² he⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teng-hér
  - Tâi-lô: ting-hér
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɪŋ³³ hə⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Tainan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teng-hóe
  - Tâi-lô: ting-hué
  - Phofsit Daibuun: denghoea
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hue⁵³/
  - IPA (Tainan): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hue⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hue⁴¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: dêng¹ huê²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: teng hué
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /teŋ³³⁻²³ hue⁵²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹ten-hu₅
  - MiniDict: ten^平 hu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹ten-hu₂
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tən⁵⁵ hu²¹/

Noun

燈火

(collective) lights

Synonyms

火燭／火烛 (huǒzhú)

Derived terms

三更燈火五更雞 / 三更灯火五更鸡 (sāngēng dēnghuǒ wǔgēng jī)
燈火之資 / 灯火之资
燈火店 / 灯火店
燈火萬家 / 灯火万家
燈火管制 / 灯火管制 (dēnghuǒ guǎnzhì)
燈火輝煌 / 灯火辉煌
燈火通明 / 灯火通明 (dēnghuǒtōngmíng)
燈火闌珊 / 灯火阑珊 (dēnghuǒlánshān)
萬家燈火 / 万家灯火 (wànjiādēnghuǒ)

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “灯火”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 143.
周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “灯火”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 137.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
燈	火
とう Jinmeiyō	か Grade: 1
on'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 燈火 – see the following entry.

【灯火とうか】

[noun] light; lamp, torch

(This term, 燈火, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)