tianjin
/tiˈændʒɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Watch or run in the fourth annual 42-kilometer Tianjin race on a 15-day tour starting October 23 in Beijing."
- "As of March this year, pipelines accommodating 17 MW were already installed between Donghai and a pilot wind project in Bohai Bay near Tianjin."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 天津 (Tiānjīn, literally “heavenly ford; heavenly crossing”).
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 天津
Inflected Forms
Thiencin (alternative, obsolete)
Tien-tsin (alternative)
Tientsin (alternative)
T'ien-chin (alternative)
Tienchin (alternative)