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Tianzhen

Syllables: Tian·zhen

Tianzhen proper noun: a county of Datong, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Tianzhen

  1. A county of Datong, Shanxi, China.
    • On August 27th the Court crossed the Shansi border, and spent the night at T'ien-chen hsien. The local Magistrate, a Manchu, had committed suicide after hearing of the fall of Mukden and other Manchurian cities; and the town was in a condition of ruinous disorder.[1910, J. O. P. Bland, E. Backhouse, “The Flight from Peking and the Court in Exile”, in China Under the Empress Dowager, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 223
    • Recently in Tienchen County, the Kweichow Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Bureau convened a forum on rice cultivation, attended by responsible cadres of the agricultural bureaus of a number of regions, autonomous chou and counties and persons concerned, together with a number of poor and...[1973 May 15 [1973 May 11], “Kweichow Forum on Rice Cultivation Notes Shortcomings”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 94, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced...

Examples of Tianzhen in a sentence

  • Stretches of wall run through what is modern Tianzhen county, heading boldly into the Inner Mongolia to the east.2014, Kim Hunter Gordon, editor, Datong: A Historical Guide, Matric International Publishing, →ISBN, page 274:
  • Yet Tianzhen county, of which Dingjiayan is a part, is one of just 592 areas that the central government designates as “impoverished”.2015 April 4, “Just a little bit richer”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2020, China:

Origin of Tianzhen

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天鎮 /天镇.

Questions about Tianzhen

What does Tianzhen mean?
Tianzhen means a county of Datong, Shanxi, China.
How do you use Tianzhen in a sentence?
Stretches of wall run through what is modern Tianzhen county, heading boldly into the Inner Mongolia to the east.
What part of speech is Tianzhen?
Tianzhen is a proper noun.

Words near Tianzhen in the dictionary

  1. Tiantai
  2. Tiantongyuan
  3. Tianwendian
  4. Tianxin
  5. Tianya
  6. Tianzhen
  7. tiaong
  8. Tiaoyu
  9. Tiaoyu Islands
  10. Tiaoyutai
  11. Tiaoyutai Islands

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