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Beichen
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běichén Běichén
English
Beichen District
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 北辰.
Pronunciation
bāʹchǔnʹ
en Bei chen
Proper noun
en district city/Tianjin c/China.
en March 19, 2012 Zhou Xin; Nick Edwards China audit details fraud, waste at Beijing-Shanghai railway Michael Perry w:Reuters https://archive.ph/osf00 BEIJING (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE82I054/ July 04, 2024 World The new report said 413 million yuan spent on train windshields was wasted when design specifications were changed in March 2011, three months before the line opened.It found that Beichen district government in Tianjin had 340 million yuan in its own accounts instead of being paid promptly in compensation for land procured for the railway.
en October 12, 2015 Michael Forsythe China: Fire Strikes Tianjin, 2 Months After Fatal Blast w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20151016061752/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/world/asia/china-fire-strikes-tianjin-2-months-after-fatal-blast.html 16 October 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/world/asia/china-fire-strikes-tianjin-2-months-after-fatal-blast.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific https://archive.ph/xQ4A0 Monday’s fire occurred in the Beichen district, an area far closer to the urban core of Tianjin.
Translations
district
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 北辰
Mandarin: cmn 北辰
Japanese: ja