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T'ien-men

T'ien-men is the alternative form of Tianmen.

Meaning of Tianmen

Proper noun

Tianmen

  1. A sub-prefectural city of Hubei, China.
    • This interaction between popular suspicions and rumors generated by inflammatory literature was clearly noted by Li Hung-chang in connection with the Tienmen, Hupeh, missionary case of 1869.[1963, Paul A. Cohen, China and Christianity: The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1860-1870, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 303

Origin of T'ien-men

From Mandarin 天門 /天门 (Tiānmén), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-mên².

Questions about T'ien-men

What is T'ien-men the alternative form of?
T'ien-men is the alternative form of Tianmen.

Words near T'ien-men in the dictionary

  1. T'ien
  2. T'ien-an-men
  3. T'ien-an-men Square
  4. T'ien-chin
  5. T'ien-ching
  6. T'ien-men
  7. T'ien-mên
  8. t'internet
  9. t'is
  10. T'it'q'et
  11. t'night

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Adapted from Wiktionary: T'ien-men (page history and authors); Tianmen (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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