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Tianjin en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• tyěnʹjǐnʹ

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China, between Beijing and the Bohai Bay.
   • Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived in the Chinese port city of Tianjin on Thursday to begin her three-day tour of the country.[…] On Thursday, Baerbock is set to visit a school in Tianjin that teaches German as part of the German Foreign Office's PASCH initiative. 2023 April 13, “Germany: EU 'cannot be indifferent' to China-Taiwan tensions”, in DW News, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2023, Politics:
   • 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. 1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Of Chivas Regal and Mao Tse-tung”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38:
   • Watch or run in the fourth annual 42-kilometer Tianjin race on a 15-day tour starting October 23 in Beijing. 1985 July, “For travel planners, a July 1985 check list”, in Sunset, volume 175, number 1, page 8:
   • As of March this year, pipelines accommodating 17 MW were already installed between Donghai and a pilot wind project in Bohai Bay near Tianjin. 2010 September 7, Manuela Zoninsein, “Chinese Offshore Development Blows Past U.S.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2022, ClimateWire:
   • Fears that the death toll from the explosion disaster in Tianjin, northeast China, could top 200 were stoked today as state media declared that 112 people had died as a result of Wednesday’s accident, with 95 more missing. 2015 August 16, Jamie Fullerton, “Tianjin disaster death toll may top 200”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2021:

Forms

Deriveds

Tianjinese · Tianjin preserved vegetable

Synonyms

T'ien-ching

Translations (36)

yue 天津 (city in China) · ur تیانجین (city in China) · sjo ᡨᡞᠶᠠᠨ ᡪᡞᠨ (city in China) · fr Tianjin (city in China) · sah Тэндьиин (city in China) · bua Тяньцзинь (city in China) · cmn 天津 (city in China) · mn ᠲᠶᠠᠨᠵᠢᠨ (city in China) · za Denhcinh (city in China) · sh Тјенцин (city in China) · ug تيەنجىن (city in China) · pl Tiencin (city in China) · es Tianjin (city in China) · uk Тяньцзі́нь (city in China) · it Tientsin (city in China) · bg Тиендзи́н (city in China) · ko 천진 (city in China) · de Tianjin (city in China) · bua ᠲᠶᠠᠨᠵᠢᠨ (city in China) · it Tianjin (city in China) · mn Тяньжинь (city in China) · mr ठिआन्चीन (city in China) · ru Тяньцзи́нь (city in China) · mk Тјенџин (city in China) · mnc ᡨ᠋ᡳᠶᠠᠨ ᠵᡳᠨ (city in China) · fa تیانجین (city in China) · ar تْيَانْجِين (city in China) · cs Tchien-ťin (city in China) · vi Thiên Tân (city in China) · pt Tianjin (city in China) · sh Tianjin (city in China) · ko 톈진 (city in China) · hu Tiencsin (city in China) · hi तिआंजिन (city in China) · ja 天津 (city in China) · he טיינג׳ין (city in China)