天王星

Chinese

day; sky; heaven king; Wang (proper name) star; satellite; small amount
simp. and trad.
(天王星)		 天 王 星

Pronunciation

Proper noun

天王星

  1. Uranus (planet)

See also

Japanese

Kanji in this term
天 王 星
てん
Grade: 1		 おう > のう
Grade: 1		 せい
Grade: 2
on’yomi
天王星

Etymology

From Literary Chinese compound 天王 (tennō, “heavenly king”) +‎ 星 (sei, “star”), named after Uranus, the personification of the sky in Greco-Roman mythology.

The ō reading for 王 changes to nō as an instance of renjō (連声).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

天王星 (hiragana てんのうせい, rōmaji Tennōsei, historical hiragana てんわうせい)

  1. Uranus (planet)
    • 2009 March 30 [Jan 23 2004], Takeuchi, Naoko, “Actアクト 29トゥエンティナイン　無む限げん３スリー　２人ふたり NEWニュー SOLDIERSソルジャーズ [Act 29: Infinity 3: 2 NEW SOLDIERS]”, in 美少女戦士Pretty GuardianセーラームーンSAILORMOON [Pretty Guardian SAILOR MOON], volume 6 (fiction, in Japanese), 6th edition, Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 182–183:
      そして——風 (かぜ)の星 (ほし)天 (てん)王 (のう)星 (せい)を守 (しゅ)護 (ご)にもつ天 (てん)空 (くう)の戦 (せん)士 (し)　セーラーウラヌス　参 (さん)上 (じょう)！
      Soshite ——Kaze no Hoshi Tennōsei o shugo ni motsu tenkū no senshi Sērā Uranusu sanjō!
      And I am ——the warrior of the ether, keeper of Uranus the Wind Planet. Sailor Uranus enters the scene!

See also

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
天王星

Proper noun

天王星 • (Cheonwangseong) (hangeul 천왕성)

  1. Hanja form? of 천왕성 (“Uranus”).
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