Dictionary

Tianjinese en · ADJ

Etymology

From Tianjin + -ese.

Meanings

1. Of, from or relating to Tianjin.
   • The friendly Guo Bu Li is known for its Tianjinese steamed dumplings. 2003 September, Myra Alperson, “Chinese Flushing”, in Nosh New York: The Food Lover’s Guide to New York City’s Most Delicious Neighborhoods, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 31:
   • Xinyuan Seafood World […] Seafood, Sichuan, Tianjinese and Cantonese cuisine 2010, Jeanie Carroll, “Seafood”, in Tianjin Basics, Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, →ISBN, chapter 6 (Dining & Nightlife), “Listings by Dining Options” section, page 114, column 2:
   • Data utilized in this analysis are a 1989 random sample survey conducted in the United States, in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy metropolitan area of New York, and a 1993 random sample survey conducted in two major Chinese cities, Tianjin and Shanghai. In the following text, when we refer to the American and Chinese results, we should more precisely talk about the “Albany family” or the “Shanghainese or Tianjinese family.” However, we have conducted several parallel studies with national and multicity surveys in the two countries (Logan & Bian, 1999; Spitze, Logan, & Robinson, 1992), and found very similar results. 2005, John R[ichard] Logan, Fuqin Bian, “Intergenerational Family Relations in the United States and China”, in Merril Silverstein, K[laus] Warner Schaie, editors, Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, volume 24 (2004; Focus on Intergenerational Relations Across Time and Place), New York, N.Y.: Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, section 2 (Intergenerational Relations Across Place), page 252:

Forms

Tianjinese en · NOUN

Etymology

From Tianjin + -ese.

Meanings

1. A native or inhabitant of Tianjin.
   • Several months went by before I received any news from the Troupe. Apparently, Lin was angrier than anyone had anticipated: she was not about to allow her disciple to be the first Tianjinese to have a foreign disciple without putting up some resistance. […] I hasten to add that I did not delude myself into thinking that I was a disciple on a par with a native-born female performer. Yet, at the same time, an individual’s identity as a Tianjinese or as a narrative performer also does not automatically guarantee entrance into Zhang’s artistic network. 1992 fall, Francesca Rebollo-Sborgi, “Decentering the Feminist Self”, in Repercussions, volume 1, number 2, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California, Berkeley, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 43–44:
   • Breakfast stops are similar to small cafes in the United States. It has been traditional for Tianjinese to go to these stops for breakfast on weekends. 1994, Yanjie Bian, “Housing and Community Resources”, in Work and Inequality in Urban China (SUNY series in the Sociology of Work), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, chapter 8 (Collective Consumption), page 204:
   • The Tianjinese named the street where Cantonese and Fujianese merchants operated their yanghuo stores yanghuo jie, ‘foreign stuff street’. 2005, Zheng Yangwen, “Taste-making and trendsetting”, in The Social Life of Opium in China, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 73–74:

Forms

Tianjinese en · PROPN

Etymology

From Tianjin + -ese.

Meanings

1. The Mandarin dialect spoken in Tianjin.
   • A future paper will contain some of these data in the form of a Tianjinese dictionary, at which time the contributions of several families of speakers will be individually recognized. The sources for data on Tianjinese cited herein and in several earlier papers by me on Tianjinese listed in the bibliography are the following natives of Tianjin: Wang Jianyun and her family, Ni Mingliang, and Professors Li Shiyu and Pang Binjun. 1989, Deborah Susan Davison, Lexical Prosodies of Mandarin: Comparative Evidence from Northern Chinese Dialects, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California, Berkeley, →OCLC, page 57:
   • Xiang Sheng is a comedic form with three major types, involving one, two, or three or more usually male performers. Its vehicle of delivery is the spoken vernacular Mandarin dialect, although various regional XS pieces are performed by local artists in such dialects as Tianjinese and Shandongese. 1988, Francesca Ferguson, Dualistic Relationships in Northern Chinese Narrative Arts, Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington, →OCLC, page 120:
   • the editor might at this point note the errors, but it isn’t necessarily so. Professor Higgins’s specialty was in phonetics and dialects, so in his excitement, he spoke in Tianjinese.† 2022, Wang Xiaobo, translated by Yan Yan, “Years as Water Flow”, in Golden Age: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Astra House, →ISBN, page 212: