天津
Tiān jīn
Pinyin

Definition

天津
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Tiān jīn
  1. Tianjin, a municipality in northeast China, abbr. 津

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

今天
jīn tiān
  1. 1 today
  2. 2 at the present
  3. 3 now
天
tiān
  1. 1 day
  2. 2 sky
  3. 3 heaven
天下
tiān xià
  1. 1 land under heaven
  2. 2 the whole world
  3. 3 the whole of China
  4. 4 realm
  5. 5 rule
天天
tiān tiān
  1. 1 every day
天气
tiān qì
  1. 1 weather

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南，一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一柱擎天
yī zhù qíng tiān
  1. 1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
一步登天
yī bù dēng tiān
  1. 1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child

Sample Sentences

小时候是很喜欢坐火车的。乘火车，可能天津到上海要二十二个小时。
xiǎoshíhòu shì hěn xǐhuan zuò huǒchē de 。chénghuǒchē ，kěnéng tiānjīn dào Shànghǎi yào èrshí èr ge xiǎoshí 。
When I was young, I really liked riding on the train. By train, it's maybe twenty-two hours from Tianjin to Shanghai.
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像以前我小时候，从天津要回上海来过年的话，都要坐火车的。
xiàng yǐqián wǒ xiǎoshíhòu ，cóng Tiānjīn yào huí Shànghǎi lái guònián dehuà ，dōu yào zuò huǒchē de 。
In the past, when I was young, to go back to Shanghai at New Year's we had to take the train.
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哦，你是半个天津人。那么，还有半个呢？
ō ，nǐ shì bàn ge Tiānjīn rén 。nàme ，háiyǒu bàn ge ne ？
Oh, you're half Tianjinese. Well then, what's the other half?
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大家好，我是张峰。是这样，我大概是从刚出生到十六岁之前都是在天津的，大概应该算是半个天津人吧。
dàjiāhǎo ，wǒ shì Zhāng Fēng 。shì zhèyàng ，wǒ dàgài shì cóng gāng chūshēng dào shí liù suì zhīqián dōu shì zài Tiānjīn de ，dàgài yīnggāi suànshì bàn ge Tiānjīn rén ba 。
Hi everybody, I'm Zhang Feng. It's like this: I was in Tianjin from the time I was born until I was about sixteen. I guess I count as half Tianjinese.
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