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
- (Standard Chinese)
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄏㄡˋ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tianhow
- IPA (key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ xoʊ̯⁵¹/
- Homophones:
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天后
- (Standard Chinese)
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: tin1 hau6
- Yale: tīn hauh
- Cantonese Pinyin: tin1 hau6
- Guangdong Romanization: tin1 heo6
- IPA (key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ hɐu̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
Proper noun
天后
- (religion) epithet of the Fujianese sea goddess Mazu (媽祖)
- (historical) regnal name of Wu Zetian
- Tin Hau (an area in Hong Kong)
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 媽祖 (“Mazu”) [map] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 天上聖母 | |
| Mandarin | Taiwan | 媽祖 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 天后 |
| Hakka | Changting | 天上聖母 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 媽祖婆、媽仔婆、媽祖 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 媽祖婆、媽祖娘、媽祖姑婆、媽祖 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 媽祖婆、媽仔婆、媽祖 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 媽祖婆、媽祖 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 媽祖婆、媽祖 | |
| Yunlin (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 | |
| Taipei | 媽祖 | |
| Kaohsiung | 媽祖 | |
| Shantou | 媽祖 | |
| Haifeng | 媽祖 | |
| Leizhou | 婆嬭 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 天妃 |
| Wenzhou | 天妃娘娘 | |
| Ningbo | 天妃娘娘 | |
Derived terms
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Noun
天后
- (literary) emperor
- (figuratively) influential woman
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