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• Tien-tsin, Tientsin (Postal Romanization)
• T'ien-chin, Tienchin (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 天津 (Tiānjīn, literally “heavenly ford; heavenly crossing”).

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Tianjin

2. A direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China, between Beijing and the Bohai Bay.
   • 1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Of Chivas Regal and Mao Tse-tung”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China‎, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38:

     The vast majority of factories are state owned. We visited state-owned factories ranging in size from the one thousand six hundred-worker Dong Feng (“East Wind”) Watch Factory in Tianjin to the huge one hundred fifty thousand-worker Anshan Iron and Steel Company in the Northeast.

   • 1985 July, “For travel planners, a July 1985 check list”, in Sunset‎, volume 175, number 1, page 8:

     Watch or run in the fourth annual 42-kilometer Tianjin race on a 15-day tour starting October 23 in Beijing.

   • 2010 September 7, Manuela Zoninsein, “Chinese Offshore Development Blows Past U.S.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-04-17, ClimateWire‎:

     As of March this year, pipelines accommodating 17 MW were already installed between Donghai and a pilot wind project in Bohai Bay near Tianjin.

   • 2015 August 16, Jamie Fullerton, “Tianjin disaster death toll may top 200”, in The Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 October 2021‎:

     Fears that the death toll from the explosion disaster in Tianjin, northeast China, could top 200 were stoked today as state media declared that 112 people had died as a result of Wednesday’s accident, with 95 more missing.

   • 2023 April 13, “Germany: EU 'cannot be indifferent' to China-Taiwan tensions”, in DW News‎, archived from the original on 2023-04-14, Politics‎:

     Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived in the Chinese port city of Tianjin on Thursday to begin her three-day tour of the country. […]
     On Thursday, Baerbock is set to visit a school in Tianjin that teaches German as part of the German Foreign Office's PASCH initiative.

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

• T'ien-ching

• Tianjin preserved vegetable

From the atonal pinyin romanization of Chinese 天津 (Tiānjīn, “heavenly ford; heavenly crossing”).

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1. Tianjin (a direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China)