T'ien-ching
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 天津 (Tiānjīng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-ching¹.[1]
Proper noun
[edit]T'ien-ching
- Synonym of Tianjin
- 1994, Tony Scotland, The Empty Throne: The Quest for an Imperial Heir in the People's Republic of China[1], Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 88:
- When P’u-yi arrived in Ch’ang-ch’un to take up his post as Chief Executive of Manchukuo, he was accompanied by only one wife, the Empress Beauty in Flower: his Secondary Consort, Elegant Ornament, had run off and divorced him in T’ien-ching the previous year.
References
[edit]- ^ Tianjin, Wade-Giles romanization T’ien-ching, in Encyclopædia Britannica