Tianjing
Syllables: Tian·jing
Tianjing proper noun: synonym of Nanjing.
Proper noun
Tianjing
- Synonym of Nanjing.
- On February 18, 1853, Chiu-chiang fell to the rebels, who went on to take Anking. Less than a month later, on March 19, the Taiping forces captured the beautiful city of Nanking, which was renamed T'ien-ching (Heavenly Capital) to commemorate the occasion.[1975, Federic Wakeman, Jr., The Fall of Imperial China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 152
- Toward the end of 1860, as told in his book, Lindley, together with his Portuguese fiancée Marie, a British friend he called “L.”, and a Greek friend B. Philip, joined the Taiping Army at Tianjing (Nanjing) — the capital of the Taiping Kingdom.1980 July, Zhang Haipeng, “An English Fighter in a Chinese Peasant War”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIX, number 7, Peking, →OCLC, page 30, column 3
- Synonyms:
- Nanjing
Examples of Tianjing in a sentence
- By 1851 the Taiping army had captured large areas in the southern half of the empire, and two years later it took Nanjing, which was renamed Tianjing [T'ien-ching] ("Heavenly Capital").1986, Madge Huntington, “The Qing Dynasty and the Continued Western Presence, 1644–1911”, in A Traveler's Guide to Chinese History, 1st...
- After a fierce battle, Hong and his men established control over the city of Nanjing, which they promptly renamed Tianjing, or Heavenly Capital.2011, Liel Leibovitz, Matthew Miller, “The Qing”, in Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and...
Synonyms of Tianjing
Forms of Tianjing
| alternative form | T'ien-ching |
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Origin of Tianjing
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天京 (Tiānjīng).
Questions about Tianjing
- What does Tianjing mean?
- Tianjing means synonym of Nanjing.
- How do you use Tianjing in a sentence?
- By 1851 the Taiping army had captured large areas in the southern half of the empire, and two years later it took Nanjing, which was renamed Tianjing [T'ien-ching] ("Heavenly Capital").
- What part of speech is Tianjing?
- Tianjing is a proper noun.
Words near Tianjing in the dictionary
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