Tianzhen

See also: tiānzhēn

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天鎮／天镇.

Proper noun

Tianzhen

1. A county of Datong, Shanxi, China.
   • [1910, J. O. P. Bland, E. Backhouse, “The Flight from Peking and the Court in Exile”, in China Under the Empress Dowager‎^[1], Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 223:

     On August 27th the Court crossed the Shansi border, and spent the night at T'ien-chen hsien. The local Magistrate, a Manchu, had committed suicide after hearing of the fall of Mukden and other Manchurian cities; and the town was in a condition of ruinous disorder.]

   • 2014, Kim Hunter Gordon, editor, Datong: A Historical Guide‎^[2], Matric International Publishing, →ISBN, page 274:

     Stretches of wall run through what is modern Tianzhen county, heading boldly into the Inner Mongolia to the east.

   • 2015 April 4, “Just a little bit richer”, in The Economist‎^[3], archived from the original on 2020-08-12, China‎^[4]:

     Its mud-and-brick buildings, and its setting among dusty hills in the north-eastern corner of Shanxi province, offer little to the occasional visitor to distinguish it from countless other parts of China where hard work brings but a meagre living. Yet Tianzhen county, of which Dingjiayan is a part, is one of just 592 areas that the central government designates as “impoverished”.

Descendants

• Translingual: Tianzhenosaurus

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天鎮／天镇 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can