Dadeng

Dadeng

See also: dàdēng

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) Tateng, Ta-teng

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 大嶝 (Dàdèng).

Proper noun

Dadeng

1. A subdistrict of Xiang'an district, Xiamen, Fujian, China, formerly a town
   • 1992, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East‎, ISSN 0960-0396, OCLC 13715160, page 4:

     Agricultural zone established on Fujian's Dadeng Island Dadeng town on Dadeng Island, near Xiamen city in Fujian, has been designated an agricultural development zone.

   • 2012, Beijing Review‎, volume 55, ISSN 1000-9140, OCLC 4550608, page 32:

     Dadeng Island, home to the newly built Dadeng Town market, has offered duty-free Taiwanese products since 1999.

2. An island in Dadeng, Xiang'an district, Xiamen, Fujian, China
   • 1992, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East‎, ISSN 0960-0396, OCLC 13715160, page 4:

     Agricultural zone established on Fujian's Dadeng Island Dadeng town on Dadeng Island, near Xiamen city in Fujian, has been designated an agricultural development zone.

   • 2003, William N. Brown, Amoy Magic (美丽厦门)‎, Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, OCLC 670116778, page 186:

     Dadeng Island (大嶝岛) In 1988, I was so entranced by my Chinese-English dictionary's 'model English sentences' that I read it cover to cover twice! (Read some of them on page 218). For example, how would you use the word "suppose?" The dictionary suggested, "I suppose she's gone to practice grenade throwing again."
     What a hot date she'd make! But after visiting Dadeng Island's Cross-Straits Conflict Museum, I understood what got China's lassies hot under the collar.

   • 2011, Journal of Chinese Overseas‎, volume 7, ISSN 1793-0391, OCLC 61120730, page 172:

     Everywhere on the mainland the defeated KMT was forced to retreat except in the Guningtou battle (Quemoy battle) of 1949 when the KMT won a rare victory in a key battle which prevented the Communists from "liberating" Taiwan by force. In the same year, after taking over Xiamen and Dadeng Island, the Communist Party attempted to take over Quemoy and attack Taiwan/Penghu.

   • 2012, Beijing Review‎, volume 55, ISSN 1000-9140, OCLC 4550608, page 32:

     Dadeng Island, home to the newly built Dadeng Town market, has offered duty-free Taiwanese products since 1999.

   • 2012 November 15, Hu Meidong and Sun Li, “Savoring Dadeng island's coastal pleasures”, in China Daily‎, archived from the original on November 18, 2012:

     Located in the southeast waters off Xiamen's Xiang'an district, Dadeng island is one of the closest mainland territories to Taiwan's Jinmen county.
     If you stand on the Dadeng Baiha reef, which is only 1,800 meters away from Jinmen, you can see Taiwan with the naked eye.
     [...]Another must-do on Dadeng island is to visit the duty-free market that sells food and daily necessities from Taiwan.

   • 2019, Xiao Hua Wang, editor, Sediment Dynamics of Chinese Muddy Coasts and Estuaries‎, Academic Press, →ISBN, OCLC 1032015850, page 114:

     4.2.3 Dredging-Produced SSC Increment and Marine Pollution
     In and around Xiamen Bay, there are wildlife conservation areas and tourism functional zones (see Fig. 7), for example, the Chinese white dolphin nature reserve in the Xunjiang water, the Xiamen Branchiostoma conservation between Kinmen and Dadeng, the Xiamen rare and endangered species protection zone located to the south of Xiang'an and Dadeng, and a tourism functional zone along the eastern Xiamen coast. In recent years, however, to support the coastal reclamation projects in Xiamen, extensive dredging works have taken place in Xiamen Bay, especially in the shallow water near Xiang'an and Dadeng areas.

   • 2021 May 6, Second Chinese man crosses Taiwan Strait in one week‎, Apple Daily, archived from the original on June 17, 2021:

     Carrying a luggage, Jiang took a taxi from Xiamen in Fujian province to Dadeng Island, where he rowed towards the Kinmen Islands of Taiwan 1.8 kilometers away.
     [...]As the Dadeng Isles, which comprises Dadeng, Xiaodeng and Jiaoyu, are located merely several kilometers away from Taiwan’s offshore county of Kinmen, they were used as military bases during the civil war in 1958.

Translations

subdistrict; island

Chinese: Mandarin: 大嶝 (Dàdèng) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• danged