T'ien-men
English
Map including T'ien-men (DMA, 1975)
Etymology
From Mandarin 天門／天门 (Tiānmén), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-mên².
Proper noun
T'ien-men
- Alternative form of Tianmen
- 1966, David S. Nivison, The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738-1801), Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 25–26:
- 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.
- 1967, Adolphe Clarence Scott, transl., Traditional Chinese Plays, 1970 printing, volume 1, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:
- 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.
- 1979, William H. Nienhauser, Jr., Pʻi Jih-hsiu (Twayne's World Authors Series), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:
- 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.
Translations
Tianmen — see Tianmen
Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tienmen or T’ien-men”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1911, column 1
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