T'ien-men

English

Map including T'ien-men (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 天門 / 天门 (Tiānmén), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-mên².

Proper noun

T'ien-men

1. Alternative form of Tianmen
   • 1966, David S. Nivison, The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738-1801)‎^[1], Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 25–26:

     In 1760-61 he was master of the local academy in Ying-ch’eng; in 1764 he had a similar position in nearby T’ien-men.

   • 1967, Adolphe Clarence Scott, transl., Traditional Chinese Plays‎^[2], 1970 printing, volume 1, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:

     Yesterday a barbarian soldier reported General Hsiao T'ien-tso was at Nine Dragons Flying Tiger Valley and had fought a battle at T'ien-men.

   • 1979, William H. Nienhauser, Jr., Pʻi Jih-hsiu (Twayne's World Authors Series)‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:

     His literary corpus reflects a rural setting, perhaps a modest compound near Ching-ling (modern Tʻien-men County), located in Hupei just north of the watersmeet of the Han and Yangtze rivers.

Translations

Tianmen — see Tianmen

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tienmen or T’ien-men”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1911, column 1

Anagrams

• eminent, tinemen