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

1. 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^[1], 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^[2], archived from the original on 06 December 2018, WORLD NEWS‎^[3]:

     Passengers evacuated at the station in Dingyuan, in Anhui province.

Translations

county in eastern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 定遠／定远 (zh) (Dìngyuǎn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dingyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1022, column 3