天干

Chinese

Etymology 1

		day; sky; heaven	to concern; to interfere; shield to concern; to interfere; shield; stem
simp. and trad. (天干)		天	干

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiāngān

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄍㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ gon¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): thiên-kôn

  (Hailu, HRS): tien^ˋ gon^ˋ

• Jin (Wiktionary): tie¹ gan¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): thian-kan

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tiang¹ gang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiāngān
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄍㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tiangan
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien¹-kan¹
    • Yale: tyān-gān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tiangan
    • Palladius: тяньгань (tjanʹganʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ kän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin¹ gon¹
    • Yale: tīn gōn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ gon¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ gon¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ kɔːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thiên-kôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: tien^ˊ gon^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tian¹ gon¹
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ kon²⁴/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: tien^ˋ gon^ˋ
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰien⁵³ kon⁵³/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: tie¹ gan¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /tʰie¹¹ kæ̃¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-kan
    • Tâi-lô: thian-kan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tienkafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɛn³³ kan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tiang¹ gang¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thiang kang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiaŋ³³⁻²³ kaŋ³³/

Noun

天干

1. heavenly stem: one of the ten terms used in East Asian cultures to represent
   1. (historical or astrology) A day of the traditional ten-day week.
   2. (mythology) One of the ten suns thought to appear in succession on its appointed day of the traditional week
   3. (historical religion) The ancestor venerated with a ritual on the appointed day of the traditional week.
   4. (formal) An ordinal, used in similar contexts to Roman numerals in English numbering and outlining.
2. The set of ten heavenly stems as a whole.

Synonyms

• (as a set): 十干 (shígān)

Hyponyms

• 甲 (jiǎ, “first”)
• 乙 (yǐ, “second”)
• 丙 (bǐng, “third”)
• 丁 (dīng, “fourth”)
• 戊 (wù, “fifth”)
• 己 (jǐ, “sixth”)
• 庚 (gēng, “seventh”)
• 辛 (xīn, “eighth”)
• 壬 (rén, “ninth”)
• 癸 (guǐ, “tenth”)

Derived terms

• 十干 (shígān)
• 天干地支
• 干支 (gānzhī)

 

Descendants

• → Zhuang: diengan

See also

• 地支 (dìzhī)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 天干 – see 天乾 (“drought”). (This term is the simplified form of 天乾).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Korean

Hanja in this term
天	干

Noun

天干 • (cheon'gan) (hangeul 천간)

1. hanja form^? of 천간 (“the ten heavenly stems”)