Lake Tien
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Mandarin 滇池 (Diān Chí), Wade-Giles romanization: Tien¹ Chʻih².[1]
Proper noun[edit]
Lake Tien
- Alternative form of Lake Dian
- 1981, Thomas C. Patterson, Archaeology: the Evolution of Ancient Societies[1], Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 192:
- Farther south, on the shores of Lake Tien in Yunnan, a tomb bore a golden seal with a Chinese inscription, "Seal of the King of Tien."
Translations[edit]
Lake Dian — see Lake Dian
References[edit]
- ^ Lake Dian, (Wade-Giles romanization) Tien Ch’ih, in Encyclopædia Britannica