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Tiantongyuan

Syllables: Tian·tong·yuan/ˌtjɛn.tʊŋ.juˈɛn/

Tiantongyuan proper noun: a community in Changping district, Beijing, China.

Proper noun

Tiantongyuan

  1. A community in Changping district, Beijing, China.
    • ‘Ham’ amateur radio operators in Tiantongyuan, a community in northern Beijing, are using the airwaves to search for an elderly mum who has been missing for over a week.2006 August 25, Xubo Jiang, “Amateur radio enthusiasts search for missing mum”, in Beijing Review, number 273, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1
    • Tiantongyuan (天通苑) is an apartment complex and neighborhood in northern Beiing’s Changping District that was established in 1999. As of July 2009 it had over 600,000 residents, and it is the largest of such complexes in Asia. Residents of Tiantongyuan all have access to a website called Jiazhu...2011, Eric Gordon, Adriana de Souza e Silva, “Globalization”, in Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 163

Examples of Tiantongyuan in a sentence

  • Tiantongyuan (天通苑) is an apartment complex and neighborhood in northern Beiing’s Changping District that was established in 1999.2011, Eric Gordon, Adriana de Souza e Silva, “Globalization”, in Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World, Wiley-Blackwell...
  • For example, Tiantongyuan, a high-density community of giant housing blocks in the suburbs of northern Beijing, has three subway stations.2012, Tom Miller, China's Urban Billion: The story behind the biggest migration in human history, Zed Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137:

Origin of Tiantongyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天通苑 (Tiāntōngyuàn).

Questions about Tiantongyuan

What does Tiantongyuan mean?
Tiantongyuan means a community in Changping district, Beijing, China.
How do you use Tiantongyuan in a sentence?
Tiantongyuan (天通苑) is an apartment complex and neighborhood in northern Beiing’s Changping District that was established in 1999.
What part of speech is Tiantongyuan?
Tiantongyuan is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Tiantongyuan?
Tiantongyuan is pronounced /ˌtjɛn.tʊŋ.juˈɛn/.

Words near Tiantongyuan in the dictionary

  1. Tianshan
  2. Tianshui
  3. Tianshuihai
  4. Tiansi
  5. Tiantai
  6. Tiantongyuan
  7. Tianwendian
  8. Tianxin
  9. Tianya
  10. Tianzhen
  11. tiaong

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