Tungkun

English

Map including TUNG-KUAN (TUNGKUN) 東莞 (AMS, 1954) →OCLC (bottom right)

Etymology

From Cantonese 東莞／东莞 (dung1 gun2).

Proper noun

Tungkun

1. Dated form of Dongguan.
   • 1906, John Jackson, Lepers, Thirty-one Years' Work Among Them‎^[1], →OCLC, page 365:

     The city of Tungkun lies not far from Canton, and outside its walls is one of the innumerable colonies of lepers to be found in that vast Empire.

   • 1948, American Mission to Lepers, China's Leprosy‎^[2], →OCLC, page 13:

     VILLAGE AT TUNGKUN
     What can be done has already been demonstrated to a great extent at the German Rhenish Mission at Tungkun, forty miles outside Canton.[...]There is a strong Christian program at Tungkun, a happy spirit of fellowship and community cooperation.