Tiananmen Square: Meaning and Definition of

Tian'an'men' Square'

Pronunciation: (tyän'än'men'), [key]
  1. a large plaza in central Beijing, China: noted esp. as the site of major student demonstrations in 1989 suppressed by the government.
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