Meanings
- A county of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China.
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Most Chinese lawyers have low expectations about the independence of Chinese courts, but many were still shocked to see a judge in northwest China receive real-time instructions from his supervisors in the middle of a trial earlier this month. The incident took place on May 11 at the Tianjun county court in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture in the northwestern province of Qinghai.
2024 May 19, Phoebe Zhang, “Chinese lawyers accuse court officials of interfering in trial, slam ‘blatant sabotage’ of legal system”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 May 2024, Politics
Origin
- Mandarin天峻
- EnglishTianjun
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天峻 (Tiānjùn).
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Chinese Cantonese 天峻
- 天峻 (tin¹ zeon³)county
Chinese Mandarin 天峻
- 天峻 (Tiānjùn)county
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Tianjun. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tianjun
“Tianjun.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tianjun. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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