天陽

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	positive (electric.); sun; male
trad. (天陽)		天	陽
simp. (天阳)		天	阳

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiānyáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄧㄤˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiānyáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄧㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tianyáng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien¹-yang²
    • Yale: tyān-yáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tianyang
    • Palladius: тяньян (tjanʹjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ jɑŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: then yang

Rime
Character	天	陽
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	III
Fanqie	他前切	與章切
Baxter	then	yang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰen/	/jɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰen/	/jiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɛn/	/iɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰɛn/	/jɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/tʰen/	/iaŋ/
Wang Li	/tʰien/	/jĭaŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tʰien/	/i̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tiān	yáng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tin1	joeng4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ˤi[n]|l̥ˤi[n]  laŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰl'iːn  laŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	天	天	陽
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tiān	xiān	yáng
Middle Chinese	‹ then ›	‹ xen ›	‹ yang ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥ˁi[n]/	/*l̥ˁi[n]/ (W dialect: l̥ˁ- > Hàn-time *xˁ- > MC x-)	/*laŋ/
English	heaven	heaven	bright
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	天	陽
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	12387	14590
Phonetic component	天	昜
Rime group	眞	陽
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	天	陽
Old Chinese	/*qʰl'iːn/	/*laŋ/

Noun

天陽

1. (literary) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
2. (literary) sun