中庭

中庭

Chinese

		middle; center; within middle; center; within; among; in; while (doing sth); during; China; Chinese; hit (the mark)	court; courtyard
simp. and trad. (中庭)		中	庭

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōngtíng

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ ㄊㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹ ting⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): tiong-têng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhōngtíng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ ㄊㄧㄥˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jongtyng
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰiŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zung¹ ting⁴
    • Yale: jūng tìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹ ting⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: zung¹ ting⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰɪŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiong-têng
    • Tâi-lô: tiong-tîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diongdeeng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɔŋ³³ tiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tiɪŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tiɪŋ²³/

Noun

中庭

1. courtyard

Synonyms

• 天井 (tiānjǐng)
• 庭院 (tíngyuàn)
• 院落 (yuànluò)
• (colloquial) 院子 (yuànzi)
• (Min Nan) 深井, 埕斗

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
中	庭
なか Grade: 1	にわ Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Noun

中庭 (hiragana なかにわ, rōmaji nakaniwa)

1. courtyard, quadrangle, middle court

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.