"天干" meaning in Chinese

See 天干 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ kän⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /tʰiːn⁵⁵ kɔːn⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /tʰi̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ kon²⁴/ [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sinological-IPA, Sixian], /tʰie¹¹ kæ̃¹¹/ [Jin, Sinological-IPA, Taiyuan], /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Xiamen], /tʰiɛn³³ kan³³/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Zhangzhou], /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Taipei], /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /tʰiaŋ³³⁻²³ kaŋ³³/ [Sinological-IPA, Teochew], /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ kän⁵⁵/, /tʰiːn⁵⁵ kɔːn⁵⁵/, /tʰi̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ kon²⁴/, /tʰie¹¹ kæ̃¹¹/, /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/, /tʰiɛn³³ kan³³/, /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/, /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/, /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/, /tʰiaŋ³³⁻²³ kaŋ³³/ Chinese transliterations: tiāngān [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄊㄧㄢ ㄍㄢ [Mandarin, bopomofo], tin¹ gon¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], thiên-kôn [Hakka, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], tie¹ gan¹ [Jin, Wiktionary-specific], thian-kan [Hokkien, POJ], tiang¹ gang¹ [Peng'im, Teochew], tiāngān [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], tiangan [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], tʻien¹-kan¹ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], tyān-gān [Mandarin, Yale], tiangan [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], тяньгань [Mandarin, Palladius], tjanʹganʹ [Mandarin, Palladius], tīn gōn [Cantonese, Yale], tin¹ gon¹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], tin¹ gon¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], thiên-kôn [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], tien^ˊ gon^ˊ [Hakka, Hakka-Romanization-System, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], tian¹ gon¹ [Hagfa-Pinyim, Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], tie¹ gan¹ [Jin, Taiyuan, Wiktionary-specific], thian-kan [Hokkien, Tai-lo], tienkafn [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], thiang kang [POJ, Teochew]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 天干
  1. heavenly stem: one of the ten terms used in East Asian cultures to represent
    (historical or astrology) A day of the traditional ten-day week.
    Tags: historical Categories (topical): Astrology
    Sense id: en-天干-zh-noun-KJsGzVuw Topics: astrology, human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences
  2. heavenly stem: one of the ten terms used in East Asian cultures to represent
    (mythology) One of the ten suns thought to appear in succession on its appointed day of the traditional week
    Categories (topical): Mythology
    Sense id: en-天干-zh-noun-zJSCl1RV Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
  3. heavenly stem: one of the ten terms used in East Asian cultures to represent
    (historical religion) The ancestor venerated with a ritual on the appointed day of the traditional week.
    Tags: historical Categories (topical): Religion
    Sense id: en-天干-zh-noun-55f~A-AF Topics: lifestyle, religion
  4. heavenly stem: one of the ten terms used in East Asian cultures to represent
    (formal) An ordinal, used in similar contexts to Roman numerals in English numbering and outlining.
    Tags: formal
    Sense id: en-天干-zh-noun-K02bQuTQ
  5. The set of ten heavenly stems as a whole. Synonyms (as a set): 十干 (shígān)
    Sense id: en-天干-zh-noun-ng~ce4j~ Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 15 15 15 20 36 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 14 14 15 21 36 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 15 16 19 42 Disambiguation of 'as a set': 0 0 0 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: (jiǎ) (english: first), (yǐ) (english: second), (bǐng) (english: third), (dīng) (english: fourth), (wù) (english: fifth), (jǐ) (english: sixth), (gēng) (english: seventh), (xīn) (english: eighth), (rén) (english: ninth), (guǐ) (english: tenth) Derived forms: 十干 (shígān), 天干地支, 干支 (gānzhī) Related terms: 地支 (dìzhī)
Etymology number: 1

soft-redirect

  1. Tags: no-gloss
    Sense id: en-天干-zh-soft-redirect-47DEQpj8

Alternative forms

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    },
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      "text": "→ Zhuang: diengan"
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      "roman": "jiǎ",
      "word": "甲"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "second",
      "roman": "yǐ",
      "word": "乙"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "third",
      "roman": "bǐng",
      "word": "丙"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "fourth",
      "roman": "dīng",
      "word": "丁"
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      "english": "fifth",
      "roman": "wù",
      "word": "戊"
    },
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      "english": "sixth",
      "roman": "jǐ",
      "word": "己"
    },
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      "english": "seventh",
      "roman": "gēng",
      "word": "庚"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "eighth",
      "roman": "xīn",
      "word": "辛"
    },
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      "english": "ninth",
      "roman": "rén",
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          "similar"
        ],
        [
          "context",
          "context"
        ],
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          "Roman numeral",
          "Roman numeral"
        ],
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          "English",
          "English"
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          "number",
          "number"
        ],
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          "outlining"
        ]
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      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "15 15 15 20 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
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          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
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        {
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The set of ten heavenly stems as a whole."
      ],
      "id": "en-天干-zh-noun-ng~ce4j~",
      "links": [
        [
          "set",
          "set"
        ],
        [
          "ten",
          "ten"
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          "heavenly stem",
          "heavenly stem"
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          "whole",
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      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 100",
          "roman": "shígān",
          "sense": "as a set",
          "word": "十干"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tiāngān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄊㄧㄢ ㄍㄢ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tin¹ gon¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "thiên-kôn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Jin",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tie¹ gan¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "thian-kan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Peng'im",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tiang¹ gang¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tiāngān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tiangan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tʻien¹-kan¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tyān-gān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tiangan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "тяньгань"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tjanʹganʹ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ kän⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tīn gōn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tin¹ gon¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tin¹ gon¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiːn⁵⁵ kɔːn⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "thiên-kôn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tien^ˊ gon^ˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tian¹ gon¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰi̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ kon²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Jin",
        "Taiyuan",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tie¹ gan¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰie¹¹ kæ̃¹¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Jin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Taiyuan"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "thian-kan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tienkafn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn³³ kan³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "POJ",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "thiang kang"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiaŋ³³⁻²³ kaŋ³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Teochew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ kän⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiːn⁵⁵ kɔːn⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰi̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ kon²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰie¹¹ kæ̃¹¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn³³ kan³³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiaŋ³³⁻²³ kaŋ³³/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "天干"
}

{
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "soft-redirect",
  "redirects": [
    "天乾"
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "id": "en-天干-zh-soft-redirect-47DEQpj8",
      "tags": [
        "no-gloss"
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    }
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}
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    "Pages with entries"
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      "word": "乙"
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    {
      "english": "fourth",
      "roman": "dīng",
      "word": "丁"
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      "roman": "wù",
      "word": "戊"
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      "word": "庚"
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      "word": "辛"
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          "term"
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          "use"
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          "culture"
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          "culture"
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          "one"
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          "sun"
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          "thought"
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          "appear"
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          "appoint",
          "appoint"
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          "day"
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          "week"
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        "mythology",
        "philosophy",
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        "The ancestor venerated with a ritual on the appointed day of the traditional week."
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          "ten",
          "ten"
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          "term"
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        ],
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          "culture",
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          "appoint"
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          "term"
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        [
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          "ordinal"
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          "context"
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          "Roman numeral",
          "Roman numeral"
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      ]
    },
    {
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        "The set of ten heavenly stems as a whole."
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        [
          "set",
          "set"
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          "ten",
          "ten"
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          "heavenly stem",
          "heavenly stem"
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          "whole",
          "whole"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tiāngān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄊㄧㄢ ㄍㄢ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tin¹ gon¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "thiên-kôn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Jin",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tie¹ gan¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "thian-kan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Peng'im",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tiang¹ gang¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tiāngān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tiangan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tʻien¹-kan¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tyān-gān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tiangan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "тяньгань"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tjanʹganʹ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ kän⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tīn gōn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tin¹ gon¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tin¹ gon¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiːn⁵⁵ kɔːn⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "thiên-kôn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tien^ˊ gon^ˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tian¹ gon¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰi̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ kon²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Jin",
        "Taiyuan",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tie¹ gan¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰie¹¹ kæ̃¹¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Jin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Taiyuan"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "thian-kan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tienkafn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn³³ kan³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "POJ",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "thiang kang"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiaŋ³³⁻²³ kaŋ³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Teochew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ kän⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiːn⁵⁵ kɔːn⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰi̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ kon²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰie¹¹ kæ̃¹¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn³³ kan³³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tʰiaŋ³³⁻²³ kaŋ³³/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "shígān",
      "sense": "as a set",
      "word": "十干"
    }
  ],
  "word": "天干"
}

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  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "soft-redirect",
  "redirects": [
    "天乾"
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "no-gloss"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "天干"
}

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