天主
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First attested in True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven (《天主實錄》), completed by Italian Jesuit priest and missionary Michele Ruggieri in 1584 (Wang, 2012), as a semantic readaptation of Chinese 天主 (Tiānzhǔ, “heavenly emperor; heavenly God”).
Note 天主 (Tenshu) is earliest attested in Japanese no later than 1581. The coinage of 天主 (Tiānzhǔ, “God”) in Chinese and Japanese around the same time may or may not be coincidental.
天主
Branch | Words |
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Protestant | 上帝, 神, 真神 |
Roman Catholic | 天主, 僚氏 Hokkien, historical |
Eastern Orthodox | 上帝 |
Others:
From Middle Chinese 天主 (then tsyuX).
天主 • (Tenshu)
chữ Hán Nôm in this term | |
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天 | 主 |
天主
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