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khâm thiên giám

Pronunciation Northern /xəm˧˧ tʰiən˧˧ zaːm˧˥/ Central /kʰəm˧˥ tʰiəŋ˧˥ ja̰ːm˩˧/ Southern /kʰəm˧˧ tʰiəŋ˧˧ jaːm˧˥/
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imperial observatory
Noun
imperial observatory

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Meaning
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Sense 1 Noun
imperial observatory Discourse & LogicTheme

An official institution in historical empires responsible for astronomical observations and maintaining the calendar.

vi Khâm thiên giám là nơi dự báo thời tiết và làm lịch cho cả nước.

en The imperial observatory was responsible for weather forecasting and making the national calendar.

Parts
thiên / giám / 欽天監
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
欽天監
Candidates by syllable
khâm 欽(衾) thiên 天 giám 監
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
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