Dongding
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Tungting
Etymology
From Mandarin 東碇／东碇 (Dōngdìng).
Proper noun
Dongding
- An island in Jinhu, Kinmen, Taiwan.
- 2019 September 24, Lo Chih; Jonathan Chin, “Octogenarians mark anniversary with ceremony”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 24 September 2019:
- Their plans for a large wedding were interrupted when Chinese guns bombarded Kinmen County, which triggered the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis and prompted the army to send him to the front, he said.
For a month, Taiwanese and Chinese forces engaged in gunnery duels, aerial skirmishes and one naval action off the coast of Dongding Island (東碇島).
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Translations
island
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