Dingbian
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Ting-pien
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 定邊／定边 (Dìngbiān).
Proper noun
Dingbian
- A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
- [1968, Lyman P. Van Slyke, editor, The Chinese Communist Movement: A Report of the United States War Department, July 1945, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, LCCN 68-26783, OCLC 872948411, OL 27791777M, page 152:
- Other motor roads include one running northwestward from Yenan via Ching-pien to the salt-producing area in the vicinity of Ting-pien. Another runs from Ting-pien southeast to Ch’ing-yang. A fourth road reportedly runs from Ch’ing-chien on the Yenan-Mi-chih road to Ching-pien on the Yenan-Ting-pien road.]
- 1992, Deng, Xiaoping, Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, OCLC 29034977, OL 13010543M, page 331:
- In April 1942 the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government established a Hui nationality autonomous area consisting of the fourth and fifth districts of Dingbian County and two natural villages of Chengguan Town.
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Translations
county
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