# 天干
## Chinese

* 天干 (Written Standard Chinese)
* Heavenly Stems (English)

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tiāngān
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄍㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): tin$^1$ gon$^1$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): thiên-kôn
    (Hailu, HRS): tien$^ˋ$ gon$^ˋ$
* Jin (Wiktionary): tie$^1$ gan$^1$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): thian-kan
    (Teochew, Peng'im): tiang$^1$ gang$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tiāngān
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄍㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tiangan
*** Wade–Giles: tʻien$^1$-kan$^1$
*** Yale: tyān-gān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tiangan
*** Palladius: тяньгань (tjanʹganʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ kän⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: tin$^1$ gon$^1$
*** Yale: tīn gōn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tin$^1$ gon$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: tin$^1$ gon$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰiːn⁵⁵ kɔːn⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thiên-kôn
*** Hakka Romanization System: tien$^ˊ$ gon$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: tian$^1$ gon$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ kon²⁴/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: tien$^ˋ$ gon$^ˋ$
*** Sinological IPA: /tʰien⁵³ kon⁵³/
* Jin
** (Taiyuan)
*** Wiktionary: tie$^1$ gan$^1$
*** Sinological IPA (old-style): /tʰie¹¹ kæ̃¹¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-kan
*** Tâi-lô: thian-kan
*** Phofsit Daibuun: tienkafn
*** IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɛn³³ kan³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: tiang$^1$ gang$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thiang kang
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰiaŋ³³⁻²³ kaŋ³³/

#### Noun

天干
* heavenly stem: one of the ten terms used in East Asian cultures to represent
** (historical or astrology) A day of the traditional ten-day week.
** (mythology) One of the ten suns thought to appear in succession on its appointed day of the traditional week
** (historical religion) The ancestor venerated with a ritual on the appointed day of the traditional week.
** (formal) An ordinal, used in similar contexts to Roman numerals in English numbering and outlining.
* The set of ten heavenly stems as a whole.

#### Synonyms

* (as a set): 十干 (shígān)

#### Hyponyms

* 甲 (jiǎ, “first”)
* 乙 (yǐ, “second”)
* 丙 (bǐng, “third”)
* 丁 (dīng, “fourth”)
* 戊 (wù, “fifth”)
* 己 (jǐ, “sixth”)
* 庚 (gēng, “seventh”)
* 辛 (xīn, “eighth”)
* 壬 (rén, “ninth”)
* 癸 (guǐ, “tenth”)

#### Derived terms

* 十干 (shígān)
* 天干地支
* 干支 (gānzhī)

#### Descendants

* → Zhuang: diengan

#### See also

* 地支 (dìzhī)

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 天干 – see 天乾 (“drought”). (This term is the simplified form of 天乾).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

## Korean

Hanja in this term :
| 天 | 干 |

### Noun

天干 • (cheon'gan) (hangeul 천간)
* hanja form of 천간 (“the ten heavenly stems”)

## Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term :
| 天 | 干 |

### Noun

天干
* chữ Hán form of Thiên Can (“the heavenly stems”).
    Synonym: 十干
    Hypernyms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸