天后

天后

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	empress; queen; surname
simp. and trad. (天后)		天	后
anagram		后天
Literally: “Empress of Heaven”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Tiānhòu

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄏㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ hau⁶
• Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): tiêng¹ hou⁶
• Wu (Wiktionary): thi heu (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Tiānhòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄏㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Tianhòu
    • Wade–Giles: Tʻien¹-hou⁴
    • Yale: Tyān-hòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tianhow
    • Palladius: Тяньхоу (Tjanʹxou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰjɛn⁵⁵ xoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin¹ hau⁶
    • Yale: tīn hauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ hau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ heo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ hɐu̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tiêng¹ hou⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thieng hŏu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰieŋ³³⁻²³ hou³⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: thi heu (T1)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi⁵⁵ hɜ²¹/

Proper noun

天后

1. (religion, Chinese mythology) epithet of the Fujianese sea goddess Mazu (媽祖)
2. (historical) regnal name of Wu Zetian
3. Tin Hau (an area in Hong Kong)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 媽祖 (“Mazu”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		天上聖母, 媽祖
Mandarin	Taiwan	媽祖
	Singapore	媽祖
Cantonese	Hong Kong	天后
Hakka	Wuhua (Shuizhai)	媽祖
	Wuhua (Huacheng)	天妃娘娘
	Changting	天上聖母
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	媽祖婆, 媽仔婆, 媽祖
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	媽祖婆, 媽祖娘, 媽祖姑婆, 媽祖
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	媽祖婆, 媽仔婆, 媽祖
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	媽祖婆, 媽祖
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	媽祖婆, 媽祖
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	媽祖, 媽祖婆
Min Bei	Jian'ou	媽祖婆
Min Dong	Fuzhou	媽祖, 媽祖婆婆
	Matsu	媽祖婆
Min Nan	Xiamen	媽祖
	Quanzhou	媽祖
	Zhangzhou	媽祖, 媽祖婆
	Tainan	媽祖, 媽祖婆
	Penang (Hokkien)	媽祖婆
	Singapore (Hokkien)	媽祖婆, 媽祖
	Manila (Hokkien)	媽祖
	Shantou	媽祖
	Shantou (Chenghai)	媽祖
	Nan'ao (Houzhai)	媽祖
	Nan'ao (Yun'ao)	媽祖
	Jieyang	媽祖
	Haifeng	媽祖
	Singapore (Teochew)	媽祖
	Leizhou	婆嬭
Wu	Shanghai	天妃
	Ningbo	天妃娘娘
	Wenzhou	天妃娘娘

Derived terms

天后宮／天后宫 (tiānhòugōng)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (天后):

• → Vietnamese: Thiên Hậu (天后)

Noun

天后

1. (literary) emperor
2. (figuratively) influential woman

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Vietnamese

Hán tự in this term
天	后

Proper noun

天后

1. chữ Hán form of Thiên Hậu.