Dongfang

See also: dōngfāng and dòngfáng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 東方／东方 (Dōngfāng).

Proper noun

Dongfang

1. A sub-prefectural city in Hainan, China.
   • [1978 December 19 [1978 December 15], “Hainan Holds Memorial Service for Persecuted Local Official”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[1], volume I, number 244, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Haikow Hainan Island Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 9‎^[2]:

     Comrade (Lin Wang-ching), former secretary of the control committee of the Hainan Regional CCP Committee, died in Tungfang County on 12 July 1967 as a result of persecution by the counterrevolutionary revisionist line of Lin Piao and the gang of four. A memorial service was held for him in Haikow on 12 December.]

   • 2021 August 23, Tom Daly, “Chinese iron ore miner to invest $164 million in lithium production”, in David Holmes, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 24 August 2021, COMMODITIES‎^[4]:

     The company said the project would be located in Dongfang in its home island province of Hainan, in southern China, and would produce 20,000 tonnes per year of lithium hydroxide, a chemical favoured in lithium-rich EV batteries.

Translations

sub-prefectural city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 東方／东方 (zh) (Dōngfāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can