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Lake Tien

Lake Tien is the alternative form of Lake Dian.

Meaning of Lake Dian

Proper noun

Lake Dian

  1. A lake in Yunnan, China, near Kunming.
    • The chapter will therefore range much more widely than the previous ones, to take in places and events as diverse as the bronzes cast near the shores of Lake Dian in Yunnan province in the south-west, and the Tagar culture in the Yenisei valley in southern Siberia.1980, Jessica Rawson, “The Eastern Zhou”, in Ancient China: Art and Archaeology, London: Book Club Associates, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 133

Origin of Lake Tien

From Mandarin 滇池 (Diān Chí), Wade-Giles romanization: Tien¹ Chʻih².

Questions about Lake Tien

What is Lake Tien the alternative form of?
Lake Tien is the alternative form of Lake Dian.

Words near Lake Tien in the dictionary

  1. Lake Tanganyika
  2. Lake Texcoco
  3. Lake Thun
  4. Lake Tiberias
  5. Lake Tiberius
  6. Lake Tien
  7. Lake Titicaca frog
  8. Lake Titicaca frogs
  9. Lake Trasimeno
  10. lake trout
  11. lake trouts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lake Tien (page history and authors); Lake Dian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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