Tiantongyuan

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天通苑 (Tiāntōngyuàn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtjɛn.tʊŋ.juˈɛn/

Proper noun

Tiantongyuan

1. A community of Changping district, Beijing, China.
   • 2006 August 25, Xubo Jiang, “Amateur radio enthusiasts search for missing mum”, in Beijing Review‎^[1], number 273, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:

     ‘Ham’ amateur radio operators in Tiantongyuan, a community in northern Beijing, are using the airwaves to search for an elderly mum who has been missing for over a week.

   • 2011, Eric Gordon, Adriana de Souza e Silva, “Globalization”, in Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World‎^[2], Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 163:

     Tiantongyuan (天通苑) is an apartment complex and neighborhood in northern Beiing’s Changping District that was established in 1999. As of July 2009 it had over 600,000 residents, and it is the largest of such complexes in Asia. Residents of Tiantongyuan all have access to a website called Jiazhu Tiantongyuan (家住天通苑), which means "living in Tiantongyuan."

   • 2011, Chunrong Liu, “Contested ground: community and neighbourhood”, in Xiaowei Zang, editor, Understanding Chinese Society‎^[3], Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 72:

     Another key event was the spontaneous mobilization of the Tiantongyuan neighbourhood in greater Beijing in 2008, which was an effort to modify the route plan of line no.5 of the Beijing subway system so that the neighbourhood could be more conveniently connected.

   • 2012, Tom Miller, China's Urban Billion: The story behind the biggest migration in human history‎^[4], Zed Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137:

     Nevertheless, China’s investment in subway systems is overwhelmingly positive. And there are also encouraging signs, too, that Chinese cities are beginning to shape urban development around public transport hubs. For example, Tiantongyuan, a high-density community of giant housing blocks in the suburbs of northern Beijing, has three subway stations.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tiantongyuan.

Translations

community

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天通苑 (Tiāntōngyuàn)

• Japanese: 天通苑 (てんつうえん, Tentsūen)

Further reading

• Tiantongyuan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.