Tianzhu (India)
| Tianzhu | |||
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| Chinese name | |||
| Chinese | 天竺 | ||
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| Korean name | |||
| Hangul | 천축 | ||
| Hanja | 天竺 | ||
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| Japanese name | |||
| Kanji | 天竺 | ||
| Hiragana | てんじく | ||
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Tianzhu is the historical East Asian name for India. Originally pronounced as l̥induk[1] or *qʰl'iːn tuɡ 天竺 in Old Chinese, it comes from the Chinese transliteration of unattested Old Persian diminutive *Hinduka-, which is from attested