Lake Tien
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 滇池 (Diān Chí), Wade-Giles romanization: Tien¹ Chʻih².[1]
Proper noun
Lake Tien
- Alternative form of Lake Dian
- 1981, Thomas C. Patterson, Archaeology: the Evolution of Ancient Societies, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, LCCN 80-16506, OCLC 760447440, page 192:
- Farther south, on the shores of Lake Tien in Yunnan, a tomb bore a golden seal with a Chinese inscription, "Seal of the King of Tien."
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Translations
Lake Dian — see Lake Dian
References
- Lake Dian, (Wade-Giles romanization) Tien Ch’ih, in Encyclopædia Britannica