天干

天干

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	to concern; to interfere; shield to concern; to interfere; shield; stem
simp. and trad. (天干)		天	干

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiāngān

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄍㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ gon¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thiên-kôn
• Min Nan (POJ): thian-kan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tiāngān
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄍㄢ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tiangan
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ kän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin¹ gon¹
    • Yale: tīn gōn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ gon¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ gon¹
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ kɔːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thiên-kôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: tien´ gon´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tian¹ gon¹
    • IPA: /tʰi̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ kon²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-kan
    • Tâi-lô: thian-kan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tienkafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɛn³³ kan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/

Noun

天干

1. heavenly stem: one of the ten terms used in East Asian cultures to represent
   1. (historical or astrology) A day of the traditional ten-day week.
   2. (mythology) One of the ten suns thought to appear in succession on its appointed day of the traditional week
   3. (historical religion) The ancestor venerated with a ritual on the appointed day of the traditional week.
   4. (formal) An ordinal, used in similar contexts to Roman numerals in English numbering and outlining.
2. The set of ten heavenly stems as a whole.

Synonyms

• (as a set): 十干 (shígān)

Hyponyms

• 甲 (jiǎ, “first”)
• 乙 (yǐ, “second”)
• 丙 (bǐng, “third”)
• 丁 (dīng, “fourth”)
• 戊 (wù, “fifth”)
• 己 (jǐ, “sixth”)
• 庚 (gēng, “seventh”)
• 辛 (xīn, “eighth”)
• 壬 (rén, “ninth”)
• 癸 (guǐ, “tenth”)

Derived terms

十干 (shígān) 天干地支

干支 (gānzhī)

See also

• 地支 (dìzhī)