See Tienanmen on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cmn",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Mandarin",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "天安門"
},
"expansion": "天安門／天安门 (Tiān'ānmén)",
"name": "zh-l"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cmn-wadegiles",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Wade–Giles",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Mandarin 天安門／天安门 (Tiān'ānmén), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-an¹-mên².",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Tienanmen",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Tian'anmen"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "Tienanmen Square"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1961, Yutang Lin, “Studies in Form: Temples, Pagodas and the Plastic Arts”, in Imperial Peking: Seven Centuries of China, New York: Crown Publishers, →OCLC, page 125",
"text": "The most notable example of engraved dragons is on the stone columns of the Temple to Confucius at his birthplace in Chüfu. These are also found in the \"cloud pillars\" (single stone columns—huapiao in Chinese) outside the Tienanmen, while those at the Ming Tombs are still finer.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1978 December 3, “Mainland youths demand democracy”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIX, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3",
"text": "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.\nThe 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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1985, Harold R. Isaacs, Re-encounters in China, M. E. Sharpe, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70",
"text": "The Communists had their own anniversary to mark the victory of their revolution on October 1. They took no notice of October 10. Sun's portrait never hung among the great ones up on the wall at Tienanmen.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1989 May 21, Nicholas D. Kristof, “UPHEAVAL IN CHINA; BIGGEST BEIJING CROWDS SO FAR KEEP TROOPS FROM CITY CENTER; PARTY REPORTED IN BITTER FIGHT”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-08-12, Section 1, page 1",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Leonard Nimoy, I Am Spock, New York: Hyperion, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 188",
"text": "Soon we arrived at the Beijing Hotel—within shouting distance of the now infamous Tienanmen Square.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Bedford High School 2018, Bedford, Mass., page 119",
"text": "Jessica Johnson & Chloe Lai's project on the Tienanmen Square Massacre won 1st place in the group exhibit category.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020 June 5, Yi-hsuan Lu, Dennis Xie, “MOFA reflects on aftermath of protests”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-06-12, Front Page, page 1",
"text": "The government has faith in the US’ democratic institutions and judicial system in the handling of the alleged police killing of an African-American man, and people should not forget the advocates for democracy sacrificed in the Tienanmen Square Massacre 31 years ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said yesterday.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 January 24, Aadil Brar, “Chinese are talking about inequality again just a year after Xi said poverty ended”, in Anurag Chaubey, editor, ThePrint, archived from the original on 2022-01-24, Chinascope",
"text": "Chinese President Xi Jinping on a Hongqi limousine at a parade in Tienanmen Square in Beijing.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 February 15, Clarise Larson, “A look before the ‘Leap’”, in Juneau Empire, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-15",
"text": "However, things take a dramatic turn when he enters the country in June 1989, a time of political unrest and during the height of the Tienanmen Square student protests, and he finds himself quickly thrown into a battle far bigger than just a game.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of Tian'anmen"
],
"id": "en-Tienanmen-en-name-KCIbw4pW",
"links": [
[
"Tian'anmen",
"Tian'anmen#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "Tienanmen"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "Tienanmen Square"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cmn",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Mandarin",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "天安門"
},
"expansion": "天安門／天安门 (Tiān'ānmén)",
"name": "zh-l"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cmn-wadegiles",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Wade–Giles",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Mandarin 天安門／天安门 (Tiān'ānmén), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-an¹-mên².",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Tienanmen",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Tian'anmen"
}
],
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Mandarin",
"English terms borrowed from Wade–Giles",
"English terms derived from Mandarin",
"English terms derived from Wade–Giles",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1961, Yutang Lin, “Studies in Form: Temples, Pagodas and the Plastic Arts”, in Imperial Peking: Seven Centuries of China, New York: Crown Publishers, →OCLC, page 125",
"text": "The most notable example of engraved dragons is on the stone columns of the Temple to Confucius at his birthplace in Chüfu. These are also found in the \"cloud pillars\" (single stone columns—huapiao in Chinese) outside the Tienanmen, while those at the Ming Tombs are still finer.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1978 December 3, “Mainland youths demand democracy”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIX, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3",
"text": "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.\nThe 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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1985, Harold R. Isaacs, Re-encounters in China, M. E. Sharpe, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70",
"text": "The Communists had their own anniversary to mark the victory of their revolution on October 1. They took no notice of October 10. Sun's portrait never hung among the great ones up on the wall at Tienanmen.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1989 May 21, Nicholas D. Kristof, “UPHEAVAL IN CHINA; BIGGEST BEIJING CROWDS SO FAR KEEP TROOPS FROM CITY CENTER; PARTY REPORTED IN BITTER FIGHT”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-08-12, Section 1, page 1",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Leonard Nimoy, I Am Spock, New York: Hyperion, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 188",
"text": "Soon we arrived at the Beijing Hotel—within shouting distance of the now infamous Tienanmen Square.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Bedford High School 2018, Bedford, Mass., page 119",
"text": "Jessica Johnson & Chloe Lai's project on the Tienanmen Square Massacre won 1st place in the group exhibit category.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020 June 5, Yi-hsuan Lu, Dennis Xie, “MOFA reflects on aftermath of protests”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-06-12, Front Page, page 1",
"text": "The government has faith in the US’ democratic institutions and judicial system in the handling of the alleged police killing of an African-American man, and people should not forget the advocates for democracy sacrificed in the Tienanmen Square Massacre 31 years ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said yesterday.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 January 24, Aadil Brar, “Chinese are talking about inequality again just a year after Xi said poverty ended”, in Anurag Chaubey, editor, ThePrint, archived from the original on 2022-01-24, Chinascope",
"text": "Chinese President Xi Jinping on a Hongqi limousine at a parade in Tienanmen Square in Beijing.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 February 15, Clarise Larson, “A look before the ‘Leap’”, in Juneau Empire, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-15",
"text": "However, things take a dramatic turn when he enters the country in June 1989, a time of political unrest and during the height of the Tienanmen Square student protests, and he finds himself quickly thrown into a battle far bigger than just a game.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of Tian'anmen"
],
"links": [
[
"Tian'anmen",
"Tian'anmen#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "Tienanmen"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Tienanmen meaning in All languages combined (4.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-08-20 using wiktextract (8e41825 and f99c758). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.