皇天

Chinese

		emperor; surname	day; sky; heaven
simp. and trad. (皇天)		皇	天
anagram		天皇

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huángtiān

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄊㄧㄢ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huángtiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄊㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huángtian
    • Wade–Giles: huang²-tʻien¹
    • Yale: hwáng-tyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwangtian
    • Palladius: хуантянь (xuantjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 皇天 黃天／黄天

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• Middle Chinese: hwang then

Rime
Character	皇	天
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	唐 (102)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	I	IV
Fanqie	胡光切	他前切
Baxter	hwang	then
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwɑŋ/	/tʰen/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɑŋ/	/tʰen/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑŋ/	/tʰɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaŋ/	/tʰɛn/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑŋ/	/tʰen/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑŋ/	/tʰien/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwɑŋ/	/tʰien/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huáng	tiān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wong4	tin1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷˤaŋ  l̥ˤi[n]|l̥ˤi[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷaːŋ  qʰl'iːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	皇	皇	天	天
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huáng	huáng	tiān	xiān
Middle Chinese	‹ hwang ›	‹ hwang ›	‹ then ›	‹ xen ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷˁaŋ/	/*[ɢ]ʷˁaŋ/	/*l̥ˁi[n]/	/*l̥ˁi[n]/ (W dialect: l̥ˁ- > Hàn-time *xˁ- > MC x-)
English	yellow and white spotted	sovereign	heaven	heaven
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	皇	天
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	12696	12387
Phonetic component	王	天
Rime group	陽	眞
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	黃	天
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷaːŋ/	/*qʰl'iːn/
Notes	禮王制鄭注冕屬， 金文象羽冠，王聲；或雲象日射輝則爲暀晃初文

Noun

皇天

1. the great and almighty heavens above
2. (Wenzhounese) oh my God

Derived terms

• 皇天不負苦心人／皇天不负苦心人 (huángtiān bù fù kǔxīn rén)
• 皇天后土 (huángtiānhòutǔ)

 

Synonyms

(oh my God):

• 哇老誒／哇老诶 (wà láo ei) (chiefly Singapore/Malaysia, slang)
• 喔麥尬／喔麦尬 (ōmàigà) (chiefly Taiwan, slang)
• 天哪 (tiān na)
• 天啊 (tiān a)
• 好家伙 (hǎojiāhuo)
• 媽呀／妈呀 (māya)
• 我父 (Teochew)
• 我的天 (wǒ de tiān)
• 我的天啊 (wǒ de tiān a)
• 我的媽呀／我的妈呀 (wǒdemāya)
• 我空 (Philippine Hokkien)
• 我苦 (Hokkien)
• 我迸 (Quanzhou Hokkien, Xiamen Hokkien)
• 阿姆哀 (Hakka)