Tianzhen
Appearance
See also: tiānzhēn
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天鎮 / 天镇.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Tianzhen
- 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[2], 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.]
- 2015 April 4, “Just a little bit richer”, in The Economist[4], archived from the original on 2020-08-12, China[5]:
- 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
[edit]- Translingual: Tianzhenosaurus
Translations
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tienchen or T’ien-chen”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1911, column 1