Tianjin
Syllables: Tian·jin
Tianjin proper noun: a direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China, between Beijing and the Bohai Bay.
Proper noun
Tianjin
- 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
- Watch or run in the fourth annual 42-kilometer Tianjin race on a 15-day tour starting October 23 in Beijing.1985 July, “For travel planners, a July 1985 check list”, in Sunset, volume 175, number 1, page 8
- Synonyms:
- T'ien-ching
Tianjin meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Arabic
Tianjin in Hindi
- city in China
- तिआंजिन tiāñjin
Tianjin in Marathi
- city in China
- ठिआन्चीन ṭhiāncīn
Tianjin in Urdu
- city in China
- تیانجین tyānjen
Tianjin in Arabic
- city in China
- تْيَانْجِين tyānjīn
More languagesFewer languages
- Tianjin in Persian
- تیانجین
- Tianjin in Vietnamese
- Thiên Tân
Synonyms of Tianjin
Forms of Tianjin
| alternative form | Tien-tsin |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Tientsin |
| alternative form | T'ien-chin |
| alternative form | Tienchin |
| alternative form (obsolete) | Thiencin |
Origin of Tianjin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 天津 (Tiānjīn, literally “heavenly ford; heavenly crossing”).
Words formed from Tianjin
Questions about Tianjin
- What does Tianjin mean?
- Tianjin means a direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China, between Beijing and the Bohai Bay.
- What is Tianjin in Hindi?
- Tianjin in Hindi is तिआंजिन (tiāñjin). See Tianjin meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Tianjin?
- Tianjin is a proper noun.
Words near Tianjin in the dictionary
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