屯田

Chinese

		to store up; to station (soldiers); difficult to store up; to station (soldiers); difficult; stingy	field; farm
simp. and trad. (屯田)		屯	田

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): túntián

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄣˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tyun⁴ tin⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tûn-tiân / thûn-tiân

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: túntián
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄣˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: túntián
  - Wade–Giles: tʻun²-tʻien²
  - Yale: twún-tyán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twentyan
  - Palladius: туньтянь (tunʹtjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯ən³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tyun⁴ tin⁴
  - Yale: tyùhn tìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tyn⁴ tin⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: tün⁴ tin⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰyːn²¹ tʰiːn²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tûn-tiân
  - Tâi-lô: tûn-tiân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dundieen
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tun²⁴⁻²² tiɛn²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thûn-tiân
  - Tâi-lô: thûn-tiân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tundieen
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰun¹³⁻²² tiɛn¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰun²⁴⁻²² tiɛn²⁴/

Verb

屯田

(historical) to have garrison troops or peasants open up wasteland and grow food grain (a policy pursued by feudal rulers since the Han dynasty)

Related terms

屯墾／屯垦 (túnkěn)

Noun

屯田

(literary) reclaimed land

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