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Tien-tsin

Tien-tsin is the alternative form of Tianjin.

Meaning of Tianjin

Proper noun

Tianjin

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    T'ien-ching

Questions about Tien-tsin

What is Tien-tsin the alternative form of?
Tien-tsin is the alternative form of Tianjin.

Words near Tien-tsin in the dictionary

  1. tiemonium
  2. Tiempo
  3. Tien
  4. Tien Shan
  5. Tien Shui Hai
  6. Tien-tsin
  7. Tienanmen
  8. Tienanmen Square
  9. Tienchiang
  10. Tienchih
  11. Tienchin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tien-tsin (page history and authors); Tianjin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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