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tiananmen

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tiananmen.

Editorial note

It lasted until 1989 where the Tiananmen Square protest ended it all with a PR disaster.

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Quick take

A gate near the Forbidden City, Beijing, China.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A gate near the Forbidden City, Beijing, China.

noun

Ellipsis of Tiananmen Square. [A large plaza in Dongcheng district, Beijing, China.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tiananmen.

noun

A gate near the Forbidden City, Beijing, China.

noun

Ellipsis of Tiananmen Square. [A large plaza in Dongcheng district, Beijing, China.]

Example sentences

1

It lasted until 1989 where the Tiananmen Square protest ended it all with a PR disaster.

2

If the message had some information about the Tiananmen Square massacre or some other censored information, the attack would probably stop.

3

Still, I suppose it's nice to see tanks in Tiananmen Square without anyone getting killed in the process.

4

I notice this little detail in the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989, five years after 1984.

5

China knows that shooting civilians as in Tiananmen Square in 1989 makes for very unflattering optics and jeopardizes the Western trade and investment it needs.

6

It was Deng's regime that crushed the Tiananmen Square protesters.

7

He was also responsible for the Tiananmen Square massacre.

8

He lost power after Tiananmen Square protests.

9

Remember tanks in 1989 Tiananmen Square?

10

Off-topic slightly, but it's worth mentioning Louisa Lim, former NPR / BBC's China correspondent had recently published the book The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited.

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There's a similar bubble in the PRC: if you talk to someone inside it, they know all about Tiananmen Square, Tibet, the recent Hong Kong protests, etc.

Quote examples

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Instead of that "script detected" they should convert the whole page to something the Chinese government really hates, like Tiananmen Square massacre.

2

The PLA has mostly been oppressing ethnic minorities within China's expanded imperial borders (Uighurs, Tibetans, Tiananmen) since it fought "natives" in its own Vietnam War in 1979.

3

I realized it was a veiled reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre, which is known as the June 4th incident in China (literally, "six four incident").

4

I meant to imply that if you're willing to say "the ends justify the means" to kill people at Tiananmen Square, you don't have very good standing to criticize the French Revolution, because it's in fact easier to make that same argument about the French Revolution than it is about Tiananmen Square.

Proper noun examples

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One does not simply walk up with a crowd to a checkpoint without thinking about Tiananmen.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use tiananmen in a sentence?

It lasted until 1989 where the Tiananmen Square protest ended it all with a PR disaster.

What does tiananmen mean?

A gate near the Forbidden City, Beijing, China.

What part of speech is tiananmen?

tiananmen is commonly used as noun.