玉帝

Chinese

		jade	emperor
simp. and trad. (玉帝)		玉	帝

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Yù Dì

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ ㄉㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk⁶ dai³
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): goeh⁷ de⁴ / gyeh⁷ de⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Gio̍k-tè

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Yù Dì
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ ㄉㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yù Dì
    • Wade–Giles: Yü⁴ Ti⁴
    • Yale: Yù Dì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Yuh Dih
    • Palladius: Юй Ди (Juj Di)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹⁻⁵³ ti⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: juk⁶ dai³
    • Yale: yuhk dai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁹ dai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug⁶ dei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚² tɐi̯³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: goeh⁷ de⁴
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ge̤̍h-da̤̍
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kœʔ⁴ te⁴²/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gyeh⁷ de⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kyøʔ²⁴ te⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gio̍k-tè
    • Tâi-lô: Gio̍k-tè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: giogdex
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² te²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² te¹¹/

Proper noun

玉帝

1. (Chinese mythology, Chinese folk religion, Taoism) Short for 玉皇大帝 (Yùhuáng Dàdì).

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 玉皇大帝 (“Jade Emperor”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		玉皇大帝, 玉帝
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	玉皇大帝
	Singapore	玉皇大帝, 玉帝
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	玉皇大帝
Lanyin Mandarin	Lanzhou	玉皇爺
Cantonese	Hong Kong	玉皇大帝, 玉帝
Gan	Lichuan	玉皇大帝
Hakka	Yudu	玉皇大帝, 玉皇
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	玉皇大帝, 天公
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	玉皇大帝, 天公, 天公爺, 玉皇上帝, 天神爺
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	玉皇大帝, 天公, 天神爺, 天帝, 玉帝, 玉皇, 玉皇上帝
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	玉皇大帝, 天公
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	玉皇大帝, 天公
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	玉皇大帝, 天公
Huizhou	Jixi	玉皇大帝
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	玉皇大帝, 玉皇
Southern Min	Xiamen	玉皇大帝
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	玉皇大帝
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	玉皇上帝
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	玉皇大帝, 天公
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	玉皇大帝
	Yilan (Toucheng)	玉皇大帝, 天公
	Tainan	玉皇大帝, 天公
	Penghu (Xiyu)	玉皇大帝
	Penang (Hokkien)	天公
	Singapore (Hokkien)	天公
	Manila (Hokkien)	天公
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	玉皇大帝
Wu	Wenzhou	玉皇大帝
	Jinhua	玉皇大帝
Xiang	Changsha	玉皇菩薩, 玉皇大帝
	Loudi	玉皇大帝, 玉帝老子

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (玉帝):

• → Japanese: 玉(ぎょく)帝(てい) (Gyokutei)
• → Korean: 옥제(玉帝) (Okje)
• → Vietnamese: Ngọc Đế (玉帝)

References

• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “玉帝”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• 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), “玉帝”, 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 207.