Tienanmen Square
English
Etymology
Calque of Chinese 天安門廣場／天安门广场 (Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng) via Wade-Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-an¹-mên².
Proper noun
Tienanmen Square
- Alternative form of Tiananmen Square
- 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.
- 1993, Grady, Wayne, The Dinosaur Project: The Story of the Greatest Dinosaur Expedition Ever Mounted, →ISBN, OCLC 937604244, OL 1515120M, page 146:
- Pondering these matters, he stepped out to visit the world’s largest Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, near Tienanmen Square.
- 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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Further reading
- “Tienanmen Square”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Tienanmen Square at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “Tienanmen Square” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.