點天燈

Chinese

		point; dot; (decimal) point point; dot; (decimal) point; o'clock; (measure word)	moon; lantern hanging on a pole; high-hanging lantern
trad. (點天燈)		點	天燈
simp. (点天灯)		点	天灯
Literally: “to lit an open-air lamp”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diǎn tiāndēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄉㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dim² tin¹ dang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diǎn tiāndēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄉㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diǎn tiandeng
    • Wade–Giles: tien³ tʻien¹-têng¹
    • Yale: dyǎn tyān-dēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dean tiandeng
    • Palladius: дянь тяньдэн (djanʹ tjanʹdɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ tɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dim² tin¹ dang¹
    • Yale: dím tīn dāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dim² tin¹ dang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dim² tin¹ deng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːm³⁵ tʰiːn⁵⁵ tɐŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

點⫽天燈 (verb-object)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 點 / 点 (diǎn),‎ 天燈 / 天灯 (tiāndēng).
2. (historical) to burn someone's body hung on a stake, either as execution or post-mortem humiliation

   被點了天燈／被点了天灯  ―  bèi diǎn le tiāndēng  ―  to have been hung and burned