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Tienanmen

Tienanmen is the alternative form of Tiananmen.

Meaning of Tiananmen

Proper noun

Tiananmen

  1. A gate near the Forbidden City, Beijing, China.
    • In 1966, Mao sanctioned the start of the Cultural Revolution, a campaign against entrenched party interests and "capitalist-roaders" that brought China to the brink of civil war and ruined lives and careers.
      All the while, he nurtured a personality cult. People carried around his "Little Red Book"...1993 December 27, Steven Mufson, “CHINA MARKS CENTENARY OF MAO'S BIRTH”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2023

Origin of Tienanmen

From Mandarin 天安門／天安门 (Tiān'ānmén), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-an¹-mên².

Words formed from Tienanmen

Questions about Tienanmen

What is Tienanmen the alternative form of?
Tienanmen is the alternative form of Tiananmen.

Words near Tienanmen in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tienanmen (page history and authors); Tiananmen (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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