Etymology

Tientsin

T1I1E1N1T1S1I1N1
Mandarin 天津
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from天津
  2. English todayTientsin

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 天津 (Tiānjīn), from before the modern palatalization of /ts/ to /tɕ/.

Words from the same roots

Mandarin天津 all →

TianjinT'ien-ching

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.