Tianmen

See also: tiānmén

English

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天門 / 天门 (Tiānmén).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: tyěnʹmǔnʹ[1]

Proper noun

Tianmen

  1. A sub-prefectural city of Hubei, China.
    • [1963, Paul A. Cohen, China and Christianity: The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1860-1870[2], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 303:
      This interaction between popular suspicions and rumors generated by inflammatory literature was clearly noted by Li Hung-chang in connection with the Tienmen, Hupeh, missionary case of 1869.]
    • [2000, “Takaaki Ishigami”, in Listen to the Voices from the Sea: Writings of the Fallen Japanese Students[3], University of Scranton Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:
      Conscripted and entered the barracks November 2, 1939. He was killed in action March 17, 1942, in Tienmên Hsien in Hupei-Shêng. Army lieutenant. He was twenty-five years old.]
    • 2008 January 18, David Barboza, “Bloggers Push China to Prosecute Beating Death”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 December 2015, ASIA PACIFIC‎[5]:
      City officials in Tianmen in Hubei Province in central China are being punished and investigated for their role in the killing of the man, Wei Wenhua, the general manager of a construction company, and the beatings of five villagers during a dispute on Jan. 7, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

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References

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

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