What does "tianjin" mean?

A direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China, between Beijing and the Bohai Bay.

What is a synonym for "tianjin"?

Common synonyms include: t ien ching, t'ien-ching, tientsin.

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A direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China, between Beijing and the Bohai Bay.
"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."

"A huge explosion occurred in Tianjin."

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

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