Tianjin

See also: Tiānjīn

English

Alternative forms

• Tien-tsin, Tientsin (Postal Romanization)
• T'ien-chin, Tienchin (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Tianjin

2. A direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China, between Beijing and the Bohai Bay.
   • 1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Of Chivas Regal and Mao Tse-tung”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China‎^[1], New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38:

     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.

   • 1985 July, “For travel planners, a July 1985 check list”, in Sunset‎^[2], volume 175, number 1, page 8:

     Watch or run in the fourth annual 42-kilometer Tianjin race on a 15-day tour starting October 23 in Beijing.

   • 2010 September 7, Manuela Zoninsein, “Chinese Offshore Development Blows Past U.S.”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-04-17, ClimateWire‎^[4]:

     As of March this year, pipelines accommodating 17 MW were already installed between Donghai and a pilot wind project in Bohai Bay near Tianjin.

   • 2015 August 16, Jamie Fullerton, “Tianjin disaster death toll may top 200”, in The Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 October 2021‎^[6]:

     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.

   • 2023 April 13, “Germany: EU 'cannot be indifferent' to China-Taiwan tensions”, in DW News‎^[7], archived from the original on 2023-04-14, Politics‎^[8]:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tianjin.

Synonyms

• T'ien-ching

Derived terms

• Tianjin preserved vegetable

Translations

city in China

• Arabic: تْيَانْجِين m (tyānjīn)
• Bulgarian: Тиендзи́н m (Tiendzín)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 天津 (tin¹ zeon¹)

  Mandarin: 天津 (zh) (Tiānjīn)

• Czech: Tchien-ťin
• French: Tianjin (fr) m
• German: Tianjin (de) n
• Hebrew: טיינג׳ין
• Hindi: तिआंजिन (tiāñjin)
• Hungarian: Tiencsin (hu)
• Italian: Tientsin m, Tianjin (it) m
• Japanese: 天津 (てんしん, Tenshin)
• Korean: 톈진 (tyenjin), 천진 (ko) (cheonjin)
• Macedonian: Тјенџин m (Tjendžin)
• Manchu: ᡨ᠋ᡳᠶᠠᠨ
  ᠵᡳᠨ (tiyan jin)
• Marathi: ठिआन्चीन (ṭhiāncīn)
• Persian: تیانجین
• Portuguese: Tianjin f
• Russian: Тяньцзи́нь (ru) m (Tjanʹczínʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: Тјенцин m, Tianjin m
• Sibe: ᡨᡞᠶᠠᠨ
  ᡪᡞᠨ (tiyan jin)
• Spanish: Tianjin m
• Ukrainian: Тяньцзі́нь m (Tjanʹczínʹ)
• Urdu: تیانجین (tyānjen)
• Uyghur: تيەنجىن (tyenjin)
• Vietnamese: Thiên Tân (vi)
• Zhuang: Denhcinh

Portuguese

Etymology

From the atonal pinyin romanization of Chinese 天津 (Tiānjīn, “heavenly ford; heavenly crossing”).

Proper noun

Tianjin f

1. Tianjin (a direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China)