Dingxiang
See also: dīngxiāng and dìngxiàng
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Ting-hsiang
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 定襄 (Dìngxiāng).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈdiŋʒeɪŋ/
Proper noun
Dingxiang
- A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
- [1960, Labin, Suzanne, “The Schoolmistress Shuen, the Midwife Yu, the Feminist Mee and a Group of Chinese Women”, in Edward Fitzgerald, transl., The Anthill: The Human Condition In Communist China, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, LCCN 60-15061, OCLC 876379692, page 312:
- I knew a young woman of twenty who lived in the town of Tinghsiang in the province of Shansi. She worked in a clothing cooperative and earned thirty yuans a month.]
- 1982, Wang, Zhongshu, K. C. Chang, et al., transl., Han Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 81-11697, OCLC 876028827, page 58:
- The mural in the Holingor Han tomb shows that toward the end of the Eastern Han at the latest Dingxiang 定襄 Prefecture (in the north of modern Shanxi, transferred there from Inner Mongolia) also had mulberry cultivation.
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Translations
county
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