Meaning of T'ien-men | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In 1764 he visited Tʻien-mên, Hupeh, where his father was director of an Academy and compiler of the local history, 天門縣志 Tʻien-mên hsien-chih, completed in 1765 in 24 chüan.”

CHANG Hsüeh-chʻêng

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