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Tienanmen Square

Tienanmen Square is the alternative form of Tiananmen Square.

Meaning of Tiananmen Square

Proper noun

Tiananmen Square

  1. A large plaza in Dongcheng district, Beijing, China.
    • On my return from the meeting with Dr Fry, I spent some time walking about Tiananmen Square and took some photographs. Though I had not seen any wall posters there, I did notice six large portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hua. In the middle of Tiananmen Square there were several...1979, Govind Kelkar, China After Mao, New Delhi: USHA Publications, page 85
  2. A protest event held in the square on June 4, 1989.
    • The situation had its parallels to the one that developed in China that year: one might not be in the mood to talk with that country's leaders after Tiananmen Square, but if you really wanted to move them in the direction of democracy, and get them to restore the very rights they had trampled on...1994, Dan Quayle, Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir, 1st edition, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 121

Origin of Tienanmen Square

Calque of Chinese 天安門廣場 /天安门广场 (Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng) via Wade-Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-an¹-mên².

Questions about Tienanmen Square

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

Words near Tienanmen Square in the dictionary

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

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