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T'ien-chin

T'ien-chin is the alternative form of Tianjin.

Meaning of Tianjin

Proper noun

Tianjin

  1. A direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China, between Beijing and the Bohai Bay.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    T'ien-ching

Origin of T'ien-chin

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

Questions about T'ien-chin

What is T'ien-chin the alternative form of?
T'ien-chin is the alternative form of Tianjin.

Words near T'ien-chin in the dictionary

  1. t'garns'ls
  2. t'gether
  3. T'ien
  4. T'ien-an-men
  5. T'ien-an-men Square
  6. T'ien-chin
  7. T'ien-ching
  8. T'ien-men
  9. T'ien-mên
  10. t'internet
  11. t'is

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: T'ien-chin (page history and authors); Tianjin (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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