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

  (Pinyin): Tiānhòu

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄏㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ hau⁶
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): tiêng¹ hou⁶
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹thi-heu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Tiānhòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄏㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Tianhòu
    • Wade–Giles: Tʻien¹-hou⁴
    • Yale: Tyān-hòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tianhow
    • Palladius: Тяньхоу (Tjanʹxou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ xoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin¹ hau⁶
    • Yale: tīn hauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ hau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ heo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ hɐu̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tiêng¹ hou⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thieng hŏu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰieŋ³³⁻²³ hou³⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹thi-heu
    • MiniDict: thi^平 heu
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹thi-heu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tʰi⁵⁵ hɤ²¹/

Proper noun

天后

1. (religion, Chinese mythology) epithet of the Fujianese sea goddess Mazu (媽祖)
2. (historical) regnal name of Wu Zetian
3. Tin Hau (an area in Hong Kong)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 媽祖 (“Mazu”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		天上聖母, 媽祖
Mandarin	Taiwan	媽祖
	Singapore	媽祖
Cantonese	Hong Kong	天后
Hakka	Wuhua (Shuizhai)	媽祖
	Wuhua (Huacheng)	天妃娘娘
	Changting	天上聖母
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	媽祖婆, 媽仔婆, 媽祖
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	媽祖婆, 媽祖娘, 媽祖姑婆, 媽祖
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	媽祖婆, 媽仔婆, 媽祖
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	媽祖婆, 媽祖
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	媽祖婆, 媽祖
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	媽祖, 媽祖婆
Northern Min	Jian'ou	媽祖婆
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	媽祖, 媽祖婆婆
	Matsu	媽祖婆
Southern Min	Xiamen	媽祖
	Quanzhou	媽祖
	Zhangzhou	媽祖, 媽祖婆
	Tainan	媽祖, 媽祖婆
	Penang (Hokkien)	媽祖婆
	Singapore (Hokkien)	媽祖婆, 媽祖
	Manila (Hokkien)	媽祖
	Longyan	姑婆
	Shantou	媽祖
	Shantou (Chenghai)	媽祖
	Nan'ao (Houzhai)	媽祖
	Nan'ao (Yun'ao)	媽祖
	Jieyang	媽祖
	Haifeng	媽祖
	Singapore (Teochew)	媽祖
	Leizhou	婆嬭
	Singapore (Hainanese)	婆祖
Wu	Shanghai	天妃
	Ningbo	天妃娘娘
	Wenzhou	天妃娘娘

Derived terms

• 天后宮 (tiānhòugōng)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (天后):

• → Vietnamese: Thiên Hậu (天后)

Noun

天后

1. (literary) emperor
2. (figurative) influential woman

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
天	后

Proper noun

天后

1. chữ Hán form of Thiên Hậu.