Tan-tung

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 丹東丹东 (Dāndōng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tan¹-tung¹.[1]

Proper noun

Tan-tung

  1. Alternative form of Dandong
    • 1977, Translations on People's Republic of China, number 368-385, Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 29:
      In the course of the industrial development, the Tan-tung municipality in Liaoning province has raised a technical working force with socialist consciousness.
    • 1978, Hsia Chih-yen, Liang-lao Dee, transl., The Coldest Winter in Peking, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:
      Half a year ago, Hsia Yu-min and Tall Man Li had delivered a big bundle of goods to Tan-tung City in Liaoning Province.
    • 2006, “ANTUNG”, in Encyclopedia Americana, volume 1, →OCLC, page 83:
      In 1965 Antung's name was changed to Tan-tung. Tan-tung is in Liaoning province, near the mouth of the Yalu River on the North Korean border.

Translations

References

  1. Dandong, Wade-Giles romanization Tan-tung, in Encyclopædia Britannica

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