天津

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	Tianjin; ferry
simp. and trad. (天津)		天	津
Literally: “sky ford”.

Tianjin: Disputed. The most common interpretion is that it was bestowed by the Yongle Emperor of the Ming, who crossed Tianjin's Gu River on his way south to overthrow his nephew the Jianwen Emperor, thereby calling it 天子津渡 (“The Emperor's Ford”).

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Tiānjīn

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢㄐㄧㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ zeon¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): Thiên-chîn
Min Dong (BUC): Tiĕng-cĭng
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): Thian-tin / Thian-chin

(Teochew, Peng'im): tiêng¹ zing¹
Wu (Wiktionary): thi jin (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: Tiānjīn
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢㄐㄧㄣ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tianjin
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: tin¹ zeon¹
  - Yale: tīn jēun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ dzoen¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ zên¹
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ t͡ɕɵn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Thiên-chîn
  - Hakka Romanization System: tien´ jin´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tian¹ jin¹
  - IPA: /tʰi̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡ɕin²⁴/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: Tiĕng-cĭng
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰieŋ⁵⁵ ^(t͡s-)ʒiŋ⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Thian-tin
  - Tâi-lô: Thian-tin
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tiendyn
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɛn³³ tin³³/
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Thian-chin
  - Tâi-lô: Thian-tsin
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tiencyn
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡ɕin⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² t͡ɕin⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: tiêng¹ zing¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thieng tsing
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰieŋ³³⁻²³ t͡siŋ³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: thi jin (T1)
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰi⁵⁵ t͡ɕɪɲ²¹/

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ˤi[n]|l̥ˤi[n] [ts]i[n]/

(Zhengzhang): /*qʰl'iːn ʔslin/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	天	天	津
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tiān	xiān	jīn
Middle Chinese	‹ then ›	‹ xen ›	‹ tsin ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥ˁi[n]/	/l̥ˁi[n]/ (W dialect: l̥ˁ- > Hàn-time xˁ- > MC x-)	/*[ts]i[n]/
English	heaven	heaven	ford (n.)
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.

天津

(～市) Tianjin (a direct-controlled municipality in northern China)
the Milky Way
Short for 天津橋／天津桥.
(Chinese astronomy) Celestial Ford (Galaxy's ferry, a bridge across the Milky Way; an asterism within the Girl constellation)
(～社區) Tianjin (a community in Yiyuan, Jiang'an, Wuhan, Hubei, China)

天津 (hiragana てんしん, rōmaji Tenshin)

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