參天

Chinese

		ginseng; take part in; participate ginseng; take part in; participate; join; attend; to join; unequal; varied; irregular; to counsel; uneven; not uniform	day; sky; heaven
trad. (參天)		參	天
simp. (参天)		参	天

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cāntiān

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄢ ㄊㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caam¹ tin¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chham-thian

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cāntiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄢ ㄊㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cantian
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻan¹-tʻien¹
    • Yale: tsān-tyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsantian
    • Palladius: цаньтянь (canʹtjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: caam¹ tin¹
    • Yale: chāam tīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaam¹ tin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cam¹ tin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːm⁵⁵ tʰiːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chham-thian
    • Tâi-lô: tsham-thian
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhamtiefn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰam⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰam³³ tʰiɛn³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰam⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰam⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰam⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛn⁴⁴/

Verb

參天

1. (of trees, etc.) to be tall enough to reach to the sky

   • 黛色參天二千尺。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     黛色参天二千尺。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 杜甫 (Du Fu), 《古柏行》 ("Ballad about An Ancient Cypress"), 8th century CE

     Dàisè cāntiān èrqiān chǐ. [Pinyin]

     Its dark-green hue reaches skyward for two-thousand chi.