杏壇

Chinese

		apricot	altar
trad. (杏壇)		杏	壇
simp. (杏坛)		杏	坛
Literally: “apricot altar”.

Etymology

Confucius taught his students at "杏壇／杏坛 (xìngtán)".

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xìngtán

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄊㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hang⁶ taan⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hēng-tôaⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xìngtán
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄊㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sìngtán
    • Wade–Giles: hsing⁴-tʻan²
    • Yale: syìng-tán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinqtarn
    • Palladius: синтань (sintanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ⁵¹ tʰän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hang⁶ taan⁴
    • Yale: hahng tàahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hang⁶ taan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: heng⁶ tan⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐŋ²² tʰaːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hēng-tôaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: hīng-tuânn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hexngdvoaa
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /hiɪŋ²²⁻²¹ tuã²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɪŋ⁴¹⁻²² tuã²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɪŋ²²⁻²¹ tuã¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /hiɪŋ³³⁻¹¹ tuã²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɪŋ³³⁻²¹ tuã²³/

Noun

杏壇

1. educational circles; field of education

See also

• 杏林 (xìnglín)

Proper noun

杏壇

1. (～鎮) Xingtan (a town in Shunde district, Foshan, Guangdong, China)