登天

Chinese

		to go up; to climb; ascend to go up; to climb; ascend; mount; register; note; to publish; to issue; to record	day; sky; heaven
simp. and trad. (登天)		登	天

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dēngtiān

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄥㄊㄧㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dang¹ tin¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): teng-thian

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dēngtiān
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄥㄊㄧㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dengtian
  - Wade–Giles: têng¹-tʻien¹
  - Yale: dēng-tyān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dengtian
  - Palladius: дэнтянь (dɛntjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɤŋ⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: dang¹ tin¹
  - Yale: dāng tīn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dang¹ tin¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: deng¹ tin¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐŋ⁵⁵ tʰiːn⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teng-thian
  - Tâi-lô: ting-thian
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dengtiefn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛn⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɪŋ³³ tʰiɛn³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛn⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛn⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛn⁴⁴/

Verb

登天

to climb up to the sky; (of a spacecraft) to enter space

Derived terms

一步登天 (yībùdēngtiān)
難如登天／难如登天 (nánrúdēngtiān)
難若登天／难若登天 (nánruòdēngtiān)

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