Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

t'ien-men

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.03 in modern English

Syllables: t'ien--men
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Alternative form of Tianmen.

Example Sentences

"In 1760-61 he was master of the local academy in Ying-ch’eng; in 1764 he had a similar position in nearby T’ien-men."
"Yesterday a barbarian soldier reported General Hsiao T'ien-tso was at Nine Dragons Flying Tiger Valley and had fought a battle at T'ien-men."
"His literary corpus reflects a rural setting, perhaps a modest compound near Ching-ling (modern Tʻien-men County), located in Hupei just north of the watersmeet of the Han and Yangtze rivers."

Etymology

From Mandarin 天門 /天门 (Tiānmén), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-mên².

Word Breakdown

Root: 天門, -

Questions

What does t'ien-men mean?: Alternative form of Tianmen.
Where does t'ien-men come from?: From Mandarin 天門 /天门 (Tiānmén), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-mên².

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