田中

Chinese

		field; farm	middle; center; within middle; center; within; among; in; while (doing sth); during; China; Chinese; hit (the mark)
simp. and trad. (田中)		田	中

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Tiánzhōng

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄓㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tin⁴ zung¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: Tiánzhōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄓㄨㄥ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tyanjong
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: tin⁴ zung¹
  - Yale: tìhn jūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tin⁴ dzung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tin⁴ zung¹
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn²¹ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/

Proper noun

田中

A Japanese surname: Tanaka

Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
田	中
た Grade: 1	なか Grade: 1
kun’yomi

田 (ta, “paddy”) + 中 (naka, “center”) = “center of the paddy”

Proper noun

田中 (hiragana たなか, rōmaji Tanaka)

A surname. The 5th most common surname in Japan.[1]

References

姓#日本の主な名字 - Japanese Wikipedia

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