田中

Chinese

		field; farm	middle; centre; within middle; centre; within; among; in; while (doing sth); during; China; Chinese; hit (the mark)
simp. and trad. (田中)		田	中

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 田(た)中(なか) (Tanaka).

"Tianzhong Township"

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 田(た)中(なか) (Tanaka), from Hokkien 田中央 (Chhân-tiong-ng).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Tiánzhōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄓㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin⁴ zung¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Tiân-tiong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Tiánzhōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄓㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Tiánjhong
    • Wade–Giles: Tʻien²-chung¹
    • Yale: Tyán-jūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tyanjong
    • Palladius: Тяньчжун (Tjanʹčžun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin⁴ zung¹
    • Yale: tìhn jūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin⁴ dzung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin⁴ zung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn²¹ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tiân-tiong
    • Tâi-lô: Tiân-tiong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diendiofng
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɛn²³⁻³³ tiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɛn²⁴⁻¹¹ tiɔŋ⁴⁴/

Proper noun

田中

1. (～鎮) Tianzhong (an urban township in Changhua County, Taiwan)
2. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 田中, Tanaka

Japanese

Kanji in this term
田	中
た Grade: 1	なか Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

田 (ta, “paddy”) +‎ 中 (naka, “center”), literally, “center of the paddy”.

Proper noun

田(た)中(なか) • (Tanaka) 

1. a surname: the 4th most common surname in Japan.

   Coordinate terms: 佐藤 (Satō), 鈴木 (Suzuki), 高橋 (Takahashi), 渡辺 (Watanabe)