Dingyuan
English
Alternative forms
- Tingyuan (Postal Romanization)
- Ting-yüan (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 定遠／定远 (Dìngyuǎn).
Proper noun
Dingyuan
- A county of Chuzhou, Anhui, China.
- 1993, Thomas L. Kennedy, transl., Testimony of a Confucian Woman: The Autobiography of Mrs. Nie Zeng Jifen, 1852-1942, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 120:
- In 1853 he was named controller of the Lianghuai Salt District. He fell in battle against the Taipings at Dingyuan in Anhui.
- 2018 January 25, Lusha Zhang, Se Young Lee, “Chinese high-speed train fire triggers evacuation”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 06 December 2018, WORLD NEWS:
- Passengers evacuated at the station in Dingyuan, in Anhui province.
Translations
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dingyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1022, column 3
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.