天籟

See also: 天籁

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	music; musical pipe with 3 reeds
trad. (天籟)		天	籟
simp. (天籁)		天	籁

Etymology

From Zhuangzi, Chapter 2 (《莊子·齊物論》):

子游曰：「地籟則眾竅是已，人籟則比竹是已。敢問天籟。」子綦曰：「夫吹萬不同，而使其自已也，咸其自取，怒者其誰邪！」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

子游曰：「地籁则众窍是已，人籁则比竹是已。敢问天籁。」子綦曰：「夫吹万不同，而使其自已也，咸其自取，怒者其谁邪！」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE, translation from The Complete Works Of Chuang Tzu (2013), by Burton Watson

Zǐyóu yuē: “Dìlài zé zhòng qiào shì yǐ, rénlài zé bǐ zhú shì yǐ. Gǎnwèn tiānlài.” Zǐqí yuē: “Fú chuī wàn bùtóng, ér shǐ qí zìyǐ yě, xián qí zìqǔ, nù zhě qí shéi xié!” [Pinyin]

Ziyou said, "By the piping of earth, then, you mean simply [the sound of] these hollows, and by the piping of man, [the sound of] flutes and whistles. But may I ask about the piping of Heaven?" Ziqi said, “Blowing on the ten thousand things in a different way, so that each can be itself—all take what they want for themselves, but who does the sounding?"

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tiānlài

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢㄌㄞˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ laai⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tiānlài
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢㄌㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tianlài
  - Wade–Giles: tʻien¹-lai⁴
  - Yale: tyān-lài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tianlay
  - Palladius: тяньлай (tjanʹlaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ laɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tin¹ laai⁶
  - Yale: tīn laaih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ laai⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ lai⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ laːi̯²²/

Noun

天籟

(literary) sounds of nature

Derived terms