Tianjin

See also: Tiānjīn

English

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 天津 (Tiānjīn, literally heavenly ford; heavenly crossing).

Proper noun

Tianjin

  1. 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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Portuguese

Etymology

From the atonal pinyin romanization of Chinese 天津 (Tiānjīn, heavenly ford; heavenly crossing).

Proper noun

Tianjin f

  1. Tianjin (a direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China)
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