天南星

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	south	star; satellite; small amount
simp. and trad. (天南星)		天	南	星

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tiānnánxīng

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢㄋㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄥ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tiānnánxīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢㄋㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tiannánsing
  - Wade–Giles: tʻien¹-nan²-hsing¹
  - Yale: tyān-nán-syīng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tiannanshing
  - Palladius: тяньнаньсин (tjanʹnanʹsin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ nän³⁵ ɕiŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

天南星

Rhizome of the Arisaema (An herb used in traditional Chinese medicine.)

References

天南星 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh
Nigel Wiseman, "English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medicine", 1995. →ISBN.

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