天文

Chinese
day; sky; heaven
 
language; culture; writing
language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
simp. and trad.
(天文)		 天 文

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

天文

  1. astronomy
  2. (literary) celestial objects (stars, moon etc.); the heavens

Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of “astronomy”): 地理 (dìlǐ)

Derived terms

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (天文):

Japanese

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
天 文
てん
Grade: 1		 もん
Grade: 1
on’yomi goon

From Old Japanese,[1] from Literary Chinese 天文 (tiānwén, “heavenly phenomena; behaviors of heavenly bodies”). Compare modern Cantonese reading tin1 man4. Compare 人文 (jinbun, “humanity; humanism”, literally “human behaviors”), 水文学 (suimongaku, “hydrology”, literally “study of water behaviors”) and 地理 (chiri, “geography”, literally “nature of the earth”).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) てんもん [tèńmóń] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [tẽ̞mːõ̞ɴ]

Noun

天(てん)文(もん) • (tenmon) 

  1. (colloquial) astronomy
    Synonym: (more formal) 天文学 (tenmongaku)
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
天 文
てん
Grade: 1		 ぶん
Grade: 1
on’yomi kan’on

From Middle Chinese 天文 (MC then mjun, literally “heavens + patterns”). Likely a later borrowing. Compare modern Min Nan reading thian-bûn.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [tẽ̞mbɯ̟̃ᵝɴ]

Noun

天(てん)文(ぶん) • (tenbun) 

  1. (rare, possibly obsolete) astronomy (see the tenmon reading above)

Proper noun

天(てん)文(ぶん) • (Tenbun) 

  1. the Tenbun era, 1532–1555
See also

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean
Hanja in this term
天文

Noun

天文 • (cheonmun) (hangeul 천문)

  1. Hanja form? of 천문 (“astronomy”).

Vietnamese
chữ Hán Nôm in this term
天文

Noun

天文

  1. chữ Hán form of thiên văn (“astronomy”).
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