Tianjin

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Etymology

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 天津 (Tiānjīn, literally heavenly ford; heavenly crossing).

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Tianjin

  1. A direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China, between Beijing and the Bohai Bay.
    • 1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Of Chivas Regal and Mao Tse-tung”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China[1], New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38:
      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.
    • 1985 July, “For travel planners, a July 1985 check list”, in Sunset[2], volume 175, number 1, page 8:
      Watch or run in the fourth annual 42-kilometer Tianjin race on a 15-day tour starting October 23 in Beijing.
    • 2010 September 7, Manuela Zoninsein, “Chinese Offshore Development Blows Past U.S.”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-04-17, ClimateWire[4]:
      As of March this year, pipelines accommodating 17 MW were already installed between Donghai and a pilot wind project in Bohai Bay near Tianjin.
    • 2015 August 16, Jamie Fullerton, “Tianjin disaster death toll may top 200”, in The Times[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 October 2021[6]:
      Fears that the death toll from the explosion disaster in Tianjin, northeast China, could top 200 were stoked today as state media declared that 112 people had died as a result of Wednesday’s accident, with 95 more missing.
    • 2023 April 13, “Germany: EU 'cannot be indifferent' to China-Taiwan tensions”, in DW News[7], archived from the original on 2023-04-14, Politics‎[8]:
      Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived in the Chinese port city of Tianjin on Thursday to begin her three-day tour of the country. []
      On Thursday, Baerbock is set to visit a school in Tianjin that teaches German as part of the German Foreign Office's PASCH initiative.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tianjin.

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See also

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Province-level divisions of the People's Republic of China in English (layout · text)
Provinces: Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan (claimed) · Yunnan · Zhejiang
Autonomous regions: Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang
Municipalities: Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing
Special administrative regions: Hong Kong · Macau

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From the atonal pinyin romanization of Chinese 天津 (Tiānjīn, heavenly ford; heavenly crossing).

Proper noun

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Tianjin f

  1. Tianjin (a direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China)