Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Tianjin.
In addition, areas of foreign settlement with extraterritorial administration were established in Shanghai, T'ien-chin, Hank'ou, Chiuchiang, Amoy, and the island of Shamien (opposite Canton).
1985, Jürgen Domes, The Government and Politics of the PRC: A Time of Transition, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 273 more examples
On Wednesday, the 27th, we arrived at a place called Tʻien-chin. Here we were not on the high road to Pekin, hence the excitement created by our arrival was greater than I had ever before witnessed.
Nov. 1, 1878, Rev. Miles Greenwood, “North China”, in The Mission Field, number 275, page 544During 1983, in a joint research project with the USGS, Chinese seismologists finished installing an array of about 40 instruments to monitor ground motions associated with strong events in the Beijing/Tʻien-chin region of northeastern China.
1990, “Earth Sciences”, in Richard Golob, Eric Brus, editors, The Almanac of Science and Technology, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 271He informed the Chinese that they must do his bidding lest the Anglo-French Expeditionary Force take Tientsin (T'ien-chin) and Peking, putting the West Europeans in a position to topple the dynasty.
1996, S. C. M. Paine, Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 65
Origin
- Mandarin天津
- EnglishT'ien-chin
From Mandarin 天津 (Tiānjīn) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-chin¹.
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