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The oldest records of the term Westerners translate as "God", "Most High God", "Greatest Lord" appear to exist in the earliest documents of Chinese literature as ''Shàngdì'' (上帝, pinyin: ''Shàng+dì'', literally "Above Emperor"). This representation may be as old as 2000 BCE. However, as Chinese religion changed to incorporate later interpretations of Confucianism, Daoism, & Buddhism, the term seems to have merged, in the views of some philosophers, with an impersonal Tiān, or Heaven, to produce the omnipotent omnipresent identity of ''Huáng Tiān Shàngdì''=''Huáng'' "Emperor"+''Tiān+Shàngdì''〔"huáng" in ''Collins Chinese Concise Dictionary'', Second Edition (2006), New York: HarperCollins.〕 (皇天上帝) or ''Xuán Tiān Shàngdì''=''Xuán'' "Deep"+''Tiān+Shàngdì''〔"xuán" in ''Collins Chinese Concise Dictionary, Second Edition (2006), New York: HarperCollins.〕 (玄天上帝). The compounds ''Shàngtiān=Shàng+Tiān''〔"shàngtiān" under headword "shàng" in ''Collins Chinese Concise Dictionary'', Second Edition (2006), New York: HarperCollins.〕 and ''Tiāntáng=Tiān+Táng'' "hall"〔"tiāntáng" under headword "tiān", and "táng", in ''Collins Chinese Concise Dictionary'', Second Edition (2006), New York: HarperCollins.〕 have also been used for Heaven. The compounds ''tiānshén=tiān+shén'' "god"〔"god" in ''Collins Chinese Concise Dictionary'', Second Edition (2006), New York: HarperCollins.〕 and ''tiānxiān=tiān+xiān'' "immortal"〔"tiānxiān" under headword "tiān", and "xiān", in ''Collins Chinese Concise Dictionary'', Second Edition (2006), New York: HarperCollins.〕 have been used for a deity, in a polytheistic sense. The word ''Dì'' by itself has likewise been used for God.〔"dì" in ''Collins Chinese Concise Dictionary'', Second Edition (2006), New York: HarperCollins.〕 In addition to a reuse of some of the traditional titles, transliterations and new constructions became used by the Chinese for "God" in the Abrahamic meaning, rather than for the supreme being of traditional Chinese religion and mythology. ==General uses== Outside of direct translations in religious books, the following are often-encountered translations of the Abrahamic God in general usage.
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