T'ien-ching

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 天津 (Tiānjīng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-ching¹.

Proper noun

T'ien-ching

1. 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.