天主
Tiān zhǔ
Pinyin

Definition

天主
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Tiān zhǔ
  1. God (in Catholicism)
  2. abbr. for 天主教[Tiān zhǔ jiào], Catholicism

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

主题
zhǔ tí
  1. 1 theme
  2. 2 subject
今天
jīn tiān
  1. 1 today
  2. 2 at the present
  3. 3 now
天
tiān
  1. 1 day
  2. 2 sky
  3. 3 heaven
天下
tiān xià
  1. 1 land under heaven
  2. 2 the whole world
  3. 3 the whole of China
  4. 4 realm
  5. 5 rule
天天
tiān tiān
  1. 1 every day

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南，一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一柱擎天
yī zhù qíng tiān
  1. 1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
一步登天
yī bù dēng tiān
  1. 1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child

Sample Sentences

伊斯兰教有逊尼和什叶派，基督教的话包括天主教、东正教和新教。不过中国人说的基督教，更多的是指新教。
Yīsīlánjiào yǒu Xùnní hé Shíyè pài ，Jīdūjiào dehuà bāokuò Tiānzhǔjiào 、Dōngzhèngjiào hé Xīnjiào 。bùguò Zhōngguórén shuōde Jīdūjiào ，gèng duō de shì zhǐ Xīnjiào 。
Islam is made up of Sunni Islam and Shia Islam. Christianity includes Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. However, when Chinese people mention Christianity they generally mean Protestantism.
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