天台

天台

See also: 天臺

Chinese

Etymology 1

		day; sky; heaven	surname; (classical) you (in letters); platform surname; (classical) you (in letters); platform; Taiwan (abbr.)
simp. and trad. (天台)		天	台

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Tiāntāi, Tiāntái

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄊㄞ, ㄊㄧㄢ ㄊㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ toi⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Tiāntāi
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄊㄞ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Tiantai
    • Wade–Giles: Tʻien¹-tʻai¹
    • Yale: Tyān-tāi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tiantai
    • Palladius: Тяньтай (Tjanʹtaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰjɛn⁵⁵ tʰaɪ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Tiāntái
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄊㄞˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Tiantái
    • Wade–Giles: Tʻien¹-tʻai²
    • Yale: Tyān-tái
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tiantair
    • Palladius: Тяньтай (Tjanʹtaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰjɛn⁵⁵ tʰaɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin¹ toi⁴
    • Yale: tīn tòih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ toi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ toi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ tʰɔːi̯²¹/

Proper noun

天台

1. Alternative name for 天台山 (Tiāntāi Shān).
2. Tiantai (a county of Taizhou, Zhejiang, China)
3. (Buddhism) Tiantai (a school of Mahayana Buddhism that stresses the Lotus Sutra)

   天台宗  ―  Tiāntáizōng  ―  the Tiantai sect of Buddhism

Derived terms

天台女 天台宗

天台山 (Tiāntāi Shān) 劉阮上天台／刘阮上天台

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 天台 – see 天臺 (“rooftop”). (This term, 天台, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 天臺.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
天	台
Grade: 1	Grade: 2

Alternative spelling
天臺 (kyūjitai)

Proper noun

天台(てんだい) • (Tendai) 

1. a school of Mahayana Buddhism that stresses the Lotus Sutra

Derived terms

• 天台宗