tienanmen square
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "Soviet-made T-34 tanks armed with 85-mm guns move through Tienanmen Square in Peiping China during celebration of National Day, according to caption accompanying this photo distributed by Eastfoto, New York picture agency which services pictures from Red-controlled China."
- "About 1,000 youths gathered on Changan Street and in the Tienanmen Square in Peiping Saturday night to demand democracy and law, and freedom of speech, Japanese correspondents reported. The crowds, whose members appeared to have an average age of 20, asked the correspondents about the election system, land reform, human rights and press censorship in Japan and about democracy in the United States, and asked how the American President is elected."
- "The report also said as many as 70,000 troopers may have moved into the city center by subway and followed connecting tunnels to the walled palace, the history museum and the Great Hall of the People on three sides of the vast Tienanmen Square."
- "Pondering these matters, he stepped out to visit the world’s largest Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, near Tienanmen Square."
- "Soon we arrived at the Beijing Hotel—within shouting distance of the now infamous Tienanmen Square."
- "The heart of the modern city is T’ien-an-men Square, one of the largest — if not the largest — square in the world, created expressly in the Fifties on the ashes of the old “Tartar city,” an agglomeration of small and unassuming low grey houses, inhabited by the populace that was once excluded from the “Forbidden City.”"
Etymology
Calque of Chinese 天安門廣場 /天安门广场 (Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng) via Wade-Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-an¹-mên².