天國

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Chinese

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day; sky; heaven country; state; nation
trad. (天國)
simp. (天国)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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天國

  1. Kingdom of Heaven; paradise; heaven
    可惜天國不能我們團圓 [MSC, trad.]
    可惜天国不能我们团圆 [MSC, simp.]
    Kěxī tā zài tiānguó, bùnéng yǔ wǒmen tuányuán. [Pinyin]
    It's a shame she is in heaven and cannot reunite with us.

Proper noun

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天國

  1. the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

Usage notes

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Standard practice in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was to write this word as , where the first character was written with the upper horizontal stroke longer than the lower horizontal stroke, and the second character had its phonetic component replaced by (wáng, “king”).

Synonyms

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
てん
Grade: 1
ごく
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 天國 – see the following entry.
天国てんごく
[noun] (religion) heaven
(This term, 天國, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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天國 (cheon'guk) (hangeul 천국)

  1. hanja form? of 천국 (heaven)