Tianjin
See also: Tiānjīn
English
Alternative forms
- (postal romanization) Tien-tsin, Tientsin
- (from Wade–Giles) T'ien-chin, Tienchin
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 天津 (Tiānjīn, literally “heavenly ford; heavenly crossing”).
Proper noun
Tianjin
- A direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China, between Beijing and the Bohai Bay.
- 1975, Goldwasser, Janet; Stuart Dowty, “Of Chivas Regal and Mao Tse-tung”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, LCCN 74-7790, OCLC 471721488, page 38:
- The vast majority of factories are state owned. We visited state-owned factories ranging in size from the one thousand six hundred-worker Dong Feng (“East Wind”) Watch Factory in Tianjin to the huge one hundred fifty thousand-worker Anshan Iron and Steel Company in the Northeast.
- 1985 July, “For travel planners, a July 1985 check list”, in Sunset, volume 175, number 1, page 8:
- Watch or run in the fourth annual 42-kilometer Tianjin race on a 15-day tour starting October 23 in Beijing.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tianjin.
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Synonyms
- T'ien-ching
Derived terms
- Tianjin preserved vegetable
Translations
city in China
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Portuguese
Etymology
From the atonal pinyin romanization of Chinese 天津 (Tiānjīn, “heavenly ford; heavenly crossing”).
Proper noun
Tianjin f
- Tianjin (a direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China)