天書

See also: 天书

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	book; letter
trad. (天書)		天	書
simp. (天书)		天	书
Literally: “heavenly book”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiānshū

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄕㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ syu¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thian-chir / thian-su / thian-si

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiānshū
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄕㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tianshu
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien¹-shu¹
    • Yale: tyān-shū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tianshu
    • Palladius: тяньшу (tjanʹšu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ʂu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin¹ syu¹
    • Yale: tīn syū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ sy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ xu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ syː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-chir
    • Tâi-lô: thian-tsir
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɛn³³ t͡sɯ³³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-su
    • Tâi-lô: thian-su
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tiensw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-si
    • Tâi-lô: thian-si
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tiensy
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² si⁴⁴/

Noun

天書

1. (archaic) imperial edict
2. (archaic) book that has come from the heavens or immortal spirits
3. (figuratively) incomprehensible or undecipherable text; nonsense; gobbledygook