Tiantongyuan
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 天通苑 (Tiāntōngyuàn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌtjɛn.tʊŋ.juˈɛn/
Proper noun
Tiantongyuan
- A community in Changping district, Beijing, China
- 2006 August 25, Jiang, Xubo, “Amateur radio enthusiasts search for missing mum”, in Beijing Review, number 273, ISSN 1000-9140, OCLC 4550608, page 2, column 1:
- ‘Ham’ amateur radio operators in Tiantongyuan, a community in northern Beijing, are using the airwaves to search for an elderly mum who has been missing for over a week.
- 2011, Liu, Chunrong, “Contested ground: community and neighbourhood”, in Xiaowei Zang, editor, Understanding Chinese Society, Routledge, →ISBN, LCCN 2011012252, OCLC 745496798, page 72:
- Another key event was the spontaneous mobilization of the Tiantongyuan neighbourhood in greater Beijing in 2008, which was an effort to modify the route plan of line no.5 of the Beijing subway system so that the neighbourhood could be more conveniently connected.
- 2012, Miller, Tom, China's Urban Billion: The story behind the biggest migration in human history, Zed Books, →ISBN, OCLC 905865534, page 137:
- Nevertheless, China’s investment in subway systems is overwhelmingly positive. And there are also encouraging signs, too, that Chinese cities are beginning to shape urban development around public transport hubs. For example, Tiantongyuan, a high-density community of giant housing blocks in the suburbs of northern Beijing, has three subway stations.
- 2021 November 2, Liu, Caiyu, “A community in Beijing reputed to be the largest residential area in Asia reports four new positive COVID-19 cases”, in Global Times, archived from the original on 02 November 2021:
- Beijing reported four new positive COVID-19 cases on Tuesday who are from the same family living in Tiantongyuan, an enormous neighborhood in Beijing's Changping district reputed to be the largest residential area in Asia.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tiantongyuan.
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Translations
community
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