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Tianshui

Syllables: Tian·shui

Tianshui proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Gansu, in northwestern China.

Proper noun

Tianshui

  1. A prefecture-level city of Gansu, in northwestern China.
    • The spectacular cave shrines of Maichishan in southern Kansu have always been known to the citizens of T‘ien-shui (Ch‘in-chou) about thirty miles to the northwest.[1969, Michael Sullivan, “Foreword”, in The Cave Temples of Maichishan, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page vii
    • On the map Gansu is shaped like a dumbbell lying obliquely from east to west. Its best known city is Lanjhou, the capital, and also the gateway to the Silk Road. But we did not go there; we were heading for a relatively unknown city a few hundred miles away from Lanjhou, called...[2007, “The Years before the End of the War”, in A Girl From Shanghai: The Story of Lillian Hsu, a Medical Geneticist, a NTU Medical College Alumna, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 35–36

Examples of Tianshui in a sentence

  • It said Friday’s drill was jointly organized by the school and Tianshui city’s Civil Air Defense Office.2015 September 20, “150 students ill in China after breathing in smoke at drill”, in AP News, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2024:
  • I arrived in Tianshui an hour before sunset.2020 May 11, Anna Sherman, “A Poetic Journey Through Western China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11...
  • Tianshui, the birthplace of Fuxi, and a hub for Fuxi culture, has a long standing tradition of worshiping Fuxi.2025 June 26, Caroline Wu, 0:21 from the start, in Ancient Fuxi culture shines in modern Gansu, CGTN, via YouTube, archived from the...

Forms of Tianshui

alternative formT'ien-shui

Origin of Tianshui

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天水 (Tiānshuǐ).

Questions about Tianshui

What does Tianshui mean?
Tianshui means a prefecture-level city of Gansu, in northwestern China.
How do you use Tianshui in a sentence?
It said Friday’s drill was jointly organized by the school and Tianshui city’s Civil Air Defense Office.
What part of speech is Tianshui?
Tianshui is a proper noun.

Words near Tianshui in the dictionary

  1. Tianning
  2. Tiano
  3. Tianos
  4. tians
  5. Tianshan
  6. Tianshui
  7. Tianshuihai
  8. Tiansi
  9. Tiantai
  10. Tiantongyuan
  11. Tianwendian

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