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Tientsin

Tientsin 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

Origin of Tientsin

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 天津 (Tiānjīn), from before the modern palatalization of /ts/ to /tɕ/.

Questions about Tientsin

What is Tientsin the alternative form of?
Tientsin is the alternative form of Tianjin.

Words near Tientsin in the dictionary

  1. tienoxolol
  2. Tienpai
  3. Tiens
  4. tienshanite
  5. tiento
  6. Tientsin
  7. Tienya
  8. tiepin
  9. tiepins
  10. tieplate
  11. tieplates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tientsin (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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