天火

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	fire; angry; fierce fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving
trad. (天火)		天	火
simp. #(天火)		天	火

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiānhuǒ

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄏㄨㄛˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ fo²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thiⁿ-hé / thiⁿ-hóe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiānhuǒ
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄏㄨㄛˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tianhuǒ
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien¹-huo³
    • Yale: tyān-hwǒ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tianhuoo
    • Palladius: тяньхо (tjanʹxo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin¹ fo²
    • Yale: tīn fó
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ fo²
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ fo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ fɔː³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiⁿ-hé
    • Tâi-lô: thinn-hé
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tvi'hea
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰĩ⁴⁴⁻³³ he⁵³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰĩ⁴⁴⁻²² he⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiⁿ-hóe
    • Tâi-lô: thinn-hué
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tvi'hoea
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰĩ⁴⁴⁻²² hue⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰĩ⁴⁴⁻³³ hue⁴¹/

Noun

天火

1. fire caused by lightning or other natural phenomena
2. (Puxian Min, astronomy) meteor; shooting star

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (天火):

• → Japanese: 天(てん)火(か) (tenka)
• → Korean: 천화(天火) (cheonhwa)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
天	火
てん Grade: 1	か Grade: 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tẽ̞ŋka̠]

Noun

天(てん)火(か) • (tenka) 

1. fire caused by lightning

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
天	火
てん Grade: 1	ぴ Grade: 1

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) てんぴ [téꜜǹpì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [tẽ̞mpʲi]

Noun

天(てん)火(ぴ) • (tenpi) 

1. oven