Dingyuan

Dingyuan

English

Alternative forms

• (postal romanization) Tingyuan
• (from Wade–Giles) Ting-yüan

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 定遠／定远 (Dìngyuǎn).

Proper noun

Dingyuan

1. A county of Chuzhou, Anhui, China.
   • 1993, Thomas L. Kennedy, transl., Testimony of a Confucian Woman: The Autobiography of Mrs. Nie Zeng Jifen, 1852-1942‎, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, LCCN 92-22989, OCLC 26129546, page 120:

     In 1853 he was named controller of the Lianghuai Salt District. He fell in battle against the Taipings at Dingyuan in Anhui.

Translations

county in eastern China

Chinese: Mandarin: 定遠 (zh), 定远 (zh) (Dìngyuǎn) Japanese: please add this translation if you can