Tianfu

See also: tiānfǔ, tiānfù, Tiānfù, and tiánfù

English

天府公园
Tianfu Park

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天府 (Tiānfǔ).

Proper noun

Tianfu

1. A new area in Sichuan, China, in Chengdu and Meishan
   • 2012 April 25, Sascha Matuszak, “Push to become hi-tech manufacturing base”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-10‎^[2]:

     Chengdu's growth story continues with the Tianfu New District development, a huge new business district that will spread over more than 1,500 square kilometres of land to the south of the city.

   • 2014 October 14, “PRESS DIGEST- China - Oct 15”, in Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 31 May 2016‎^[4]:

     The central government has approved plans by Sichuan province to set up the new Tianfu business district as part of plans to accelerate development in western China.

   • 2015, Wade Shepard, “A new city, a new identity”, in Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country‎^[5], London: Zed Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 129:

     The new city is called Tianfu; it was designed by the architecture firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, and is being brought to life by the Beijing Vantone Real Estate Co., in partnership with the Chengdu municipal government — of course.
     Tianfu is designed to provision its 80,000 residents with all the latest green features bundled into a 13 sq km satellite city that sits very much removed from the downtown core of Chengdu.

Descendants

• Translingual: tianfuensis

Translations

new area

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天府 (zh) (Tiānfǔ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• fiaunt