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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

Plaza de Tiananmén

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈplasa de tja.naˈmen

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Tiananmen Square/ˌtiːəˈnɑːn ˈskwɛər/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La Plaza de Tiananmén es un símbolo importante en Pekín."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A massive city square in the center of Beijing, China, one of the largest public squares in the world.

    "Tourists from all over the world gathered in Tiananmen Square to watch the morning flag-raising ceremony."
  2. 2

    A metonym for the pro-democracy protests and subsequent military crackdown that occurred at the site in 1989.

    "The historical significance of Tiananmen Square remains a heavily censored topic in modern mainland China."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Mandarin Chinese Tiān'ān Mén (天安门), literally meaning 'Gate of Heavenly Peace', combined with the English word 'square' denoting a public open space. The term gained immense global prominence in English-language media primarily due to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.

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