Tianmen

Tianmen

See also: tiānmén

English

Alternative forms

• (postal romanization) Tienmen
• (from Wade–Giles) T'ien-men, T'ien-mên

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 天門／天门 (Tiānmén).

Proper noun

Tianmen

1. A sub-prefectural city in Hubei, China.
   • [2000, “Takaaki Ishigami”, in Listen to the Voices from the Sea: Writings of the Fallen Japanese Students‎, University of Scranton Press, →ISBN, LCCN 00-037418, OCLC 856827117, page 11:

     Conscripted and entered the barracks November 2, 1939. He was killed in action March 17, 1942, in Tienmên Hsien in Hupei-Shêng. Army lieutenant. He was twenty-five years old.]

Translations

sub-prefecture-level city in central China

Chinese: Mandarin: 天門／天门 (zh) (Tiānmén) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Imtenan, Tiemann, antimen, mannite, tineman