Tienanmen
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 天安門／天安门 (Tiān'ānmén), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-an¹-mên².
Proper noun
Tienanmen
- Alternative form of Tian'anmen
- 1961, Lin, Yutang, “Studies in Form: Temples, Pagodas and the Plastic Arts”, in Imperial Peking: Seven Centuries of China, New York: Crown Publishers, OCLC 600962962, page 125:
- The most notable example of engraved dragons is on the stone columns of the Temple to Confucius at his birthplace in Chüfu. These are also found in the "cloud pillars" (single stone columns—huapiao in Chinese) outside the Tienanmen, while those at the Ming Tombs are still finer.
- 1978 December 3, “Mainland youths demand democracy”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIX, number 48, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 3:
- About 1,000 youths gathered on Changan Street and in the Tienanmen Square in Peiping Saturday night to demand democracy and law, and freedom of speech, Japanese correspondents reported.
The crowds, whose members appeared to have an average age of 20, asked the correspondents about the election system, land reform, human rights and press censorship in Japan and about democracy in the United States, and asked how the American President is elected.
- 1985, Isaacs, Harold R., Re-encounters in China, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, LCCN 84-14064, OCLC 11030419, page 70:
- The Communists had their own anniversary to mark the victory of their revolution on October 1. They took no notice of October 10. Sun's portrait never hung among the great ones up on the wall at Tienanmen.
- 1995, Leonard Nimoy, I Am Spock, New York: Hyperion, →ISBN, LCCN 95-24504, OCLC 1007567385, page 188:
- Soon we arrived at the Beijing Hotel—within shouting distance of the now infamous Tienanmen Square.
- 2018, Bedford High School 2018, Bedford, Mass., page 119:
- Jessica Johnson & Chloe Lai's project on the Tienanmen Square Massacre won 1st place in the group exhibit category.
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Derived terms
- Tienanmen Square