天主

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	to own; to host; master to own; to host; master; lord; primary
simp. and trad. (天主)		天	主

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 天 (てん)主 (しゅ) (tenshu, “God”), which was in turn a semantic readaptation of Chinese 天主 (“heavenly emperor; heavenly God”).^[1]

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Tiānzhǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢㄓㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ zyu²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): Thiên-chú
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): Thian-chú / Thian-chí

(Teochew, Peng'im): tiêng¹ zu²
Wu (Wiktionary): thi tsr (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: Tiānzhǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢㄓㄨˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tianjuu
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: tin¹ zyu²
  - Yale: tīn jyú
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ dzy²
  - Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ ju²
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ t͡ɕyː³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Thiên-chú
  - Hakka Romanization System: tien´ zu`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tian¹ zu³
  - IPA: /tʰi̯en²⁴ t͡su³¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Thian-chú
  - Tâi-lô: Thian-tsú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tienzuo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɛn³³ t͡su⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡su⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡su⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Thian-chí
  - Tâi-lô: Thian-tsí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tiencie
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² t͡ɕi⁵³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: tiêng¹ zu²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thieng tsú
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰieŋ³³⁻²³ t͡su⁵²/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: thi tsr (T1)
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰi⁵⁵ t͡sz̩²¹/

Proper noun

天主

(chiefly Catholicism) the Lord of Heaven; God
- 在起初天主創造了天地。 [MSC, trad.]
  在起初天主创造了天地。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 思高聖經 (Studium Biblicum Version), 創世紀 (Genesis) 1:1
  Zài qǐchū Tiānzhǔ chuàngzào le tiāndì. [Pinyin]
  In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.

Derived terms

天主子 (Tiānzhǔzǐ)
天主教 (Tiānzhǔjiào)
天主教徒 (Tiānzhǔjiàotú)

天主教會／天主教会 (Tiānzhǔ Jiàohuì)
天主羔羊 (Tiānzhǔ Gāoyáng)

References

↑ 刘正埮 (1984), 高名凯, editor, 汉语外来词词典 [A Dictionary of Loan Words and Hybrid Words in Chinese] (in Chinese), Shanghai: 上海辞书出版社, OCLC 15401721.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
天	主
てん Grade: 1	しゅ Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 天主 (then tsyu^X)

Pronunciation

On’yomi: Kan’on
- (Tokyo) てんしゅ [téꜜǹshù] (Atamadaka – [1])
- IPA^(key): [tẽ̞ɰ̃ɕɨᵝ]

Proper noun

天主 (hiragana てんしゅ, rōmaji Tenshu)

(Christianity) the Lord of Heaven

Descendants

Chinese: 天主
Korean: 천주 (Cheonju)
Vietnamese: Thiên Chúa

Korean

Hanja in this term
天	主

Noun

天主 • (cheonju) (hangeul 천주)

Hanja form^? of 천주 (“the Lord of Heaven; God”).

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[1] 刘正埮 (1984), 高名凯, editor, 汉语外来词词典 [A Dictionary of Loan Words and Hybrid Words in Chinese] (in Chinese), Shanghai: 上海辞书出版社, OCLC 15401721.

天主

Chinese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Derived terms

See also

References

Japanese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Descendants

Korean

Noun