T'ien-ching

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English

Etymology

From Mandarin 天津 (Tiānjīng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-ching¹.[1]

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, 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

  1. ^ Tianjin, Wade-Giles romanization T’ien-ching, in Encyclopædia Britannica