Tienanmen

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A form of Tiananmen — A gate near the Forbidden City, Beijing, China.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Tiananmen.

    Soon we arrived at the Beijing Hotel—within shouting distance of the now infamous Tienanmen Square.

    1995, Leonard Nimoy, I Am Spock, New York: Hyperion, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 188
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    The most notable example of engraved dragons is on the stone columns of the Temple to Confucius at his birthplace in Chüfu. These are also found in the "cloud pillars" (single stone columns—huapiao in Chinese) outside the Tienanmen, while those at the Ming Tombs are still finer.

    1961, Yutang Lin, “Studies in Form: Temples, Pagodas and the Plastic Arts”, in Imperial Peking: Seven Centuries of China, New York: Crown Publishers, →OCLC, page 125

    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.

    1978 December 3, “Mainland youths demand democracy”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIX, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3

    The Communists had their own anniversary to mark the victory of their revolution on October 1. They took no notice of October 10. Sun's portrait never hung among the great ones up on the wall at Tienanmen.

    1985, Harold R. Isaacs, Re-encounters in China, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70

    The report also said as many as 70,000 troopers may have moved into the city center by subway and followed connecting tunnels to the walled palace, the history museum and the Great Hall of the People on three sides of the vast Tienanmen Square.

    1989 May 21, Nicholas D. Kristof, “UPHEAVAL IN CHINA; BIGGEST BEIJING CROWDS SO FAR KEEP TROOPS FROM CITY CENTER; PARTY REPORTED IN BITTER FIGHT”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2010, Section 1, page 1

    Jessica Johnson & Chloe Lai's project on the Tienanmen Square Massacre won 1st place in the group exhibit category.

    2018, Bedford High School 2018, Bedford, Mass., page 119

Origin

From Mandarin 天安門/天安门 (Tiān'ānmén), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-an¹-mên².

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