T'ien-chin

English

Map including T'IEN-CHIN (TIENTSIN) (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 天津 (Tiānjīn) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-chin¹.

Proper noun

T'ien-chin

1. Alternative form of Tianjin
   • Nov. 1, 1878, Rev. Miles Greenwood, “North China”, in The Mission Field‎^[2], number 275, page 544:

     On Wednesday, the 27th, we arrived at a place called Tʻien-chin. Here we were not on the high road to Pekin, hence the excitement created by our arrival was greater than I had ever before witnessed.

   • 1985, Jürgen Domes, The Government and Politics of the PRC: A Time of Transition‎^[3], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 27:

     In addition, areas of foreign settlement with extraterritorial administration were established in Shanghai, T'ien-chin, Hank'ou, Chiuchiang, Amoy, and the island of Shamien (opposite Canton).

   • 1990, “Earth Sciences”, in Richard Golob, Eric Brus, editors, The Almanac of Science and Technology‎^[4], Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 271:

     During 1983, in a joint research project with the USGS, Chinese seismologists finished installing an array of about 40 instruments to monitor ground motions associated with strong events in the Beijing/Tʻien-chin region of northeastern China.

   • 1996, S. C. M. Paine, Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier‎^[5], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 65:

     He informed the Chinese that they must do his bidding lest the Anglo-French Expeditionary Force take Tientsin (T'ien-chin) and Peking, putting the West Europeans in a position to topple the dynasty.

Translations

Tianjin — see Tianjin

Further reading

• “T'ien-chin” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.