參天

Chinese

		ginseng; take part in; participate ginseng; take part in; participate; join; attend; to join; unequal; varied; irregular; to counsel; uneven; not uniform	day; sky; heaven
trad. (參天)		參	天
simp. (参天)		参	天

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cāntiān

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄢㄊㄧㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): caam¹ tin¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chham-thian

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cāntiān
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄢㄊㄧㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cantian
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻan¹-tʻien¹
  - Yale: tsān-tyān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsantian
  - Palladius: цаньтянь (canʹtjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: caam¹ tin¹
  - Yale: chāam tīn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsaam¹ tin¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: cam¹ tin¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːm⁵⁵ tʰiːn⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chham-thian
  - Tâi-lô: tsham-thian
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhamtiefn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰam⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛn⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰam³³ tʰiɛn³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰam⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛn⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰam⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛn⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰam⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛn⁴⁴/

Verb

參天

(of trees, etc.) to be tall enough to reach to the sky
- 黛色參天二千尺。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
  黛色参天二千尺。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]
  From: 杜甫 (Du Fu), 《古柏行》 ("Ballad about An Ancient Cypress"), 8th century CE
  Dàisè cāntiān èrqiān chǐ. [Pinyin]
  Its dark-green hue reaches skyward for two-thousand chi.

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