天書

See also: 天书

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	book; letter
trad. (天書)		天	書
simp. (天书)		天	书
Literally: “heavenly book”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tiānshū

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢㄕㄨ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ syu¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thian-chir / thian-su / thian-si

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tiānshū
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢㄕㄨ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tianshu
  - Wade–Giles: tʻien¹-shu¹
  - Yale: tyān-shū
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tianshu
  - Palladius: тяньшу (tjanʹšu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ʂu⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tin¹ syu¹
  - Yale: tīn syū
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ sy¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ xu¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ syː⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-chir
  - Tâi-lô: thian-tsir
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɛn³³ t͡sɯ³³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-su
  - Tâi-lô: thian-su
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tiensw
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-si
  - Tâi-lô: thian-si
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tiensy
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² ɕi⁴⁴/

Noun

天書

(archaic) imperial edict
(archaic) book that has come from the heavens or immortal spirits
(figuratively) incomprehensible or undecipherable text; nonsense; gobbledygook

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