Dongguan

Dongguan

See also: Dōngguǎn

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) Tungkuan, Tung-kuan

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 東莞／东莞 (Dōngguǎn).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdʊŋˈɡwɑn/

Proper noun

Dongguan

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, in southeastern China.
   • [1970, Union Research Service‎, volume 59, ISSN 0049-5301, OCLC 1695888, page 19:

     In Tungkuan County, the Houchieh Brigade under Houchieh Commune, with the assistance of the Mao Tsetung Thought propaganda team, made […] ]

   • 2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China‎, New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, LCCN 2008012880, OCLC 963510224, page 29:

     Dongguan was different. It rose by no one’s decree; it simply grew. While Shenzhen aspired to advanced technology and innovation, Dongguan took what it could get, which meant low-tech factories from Hong Kong and Taiwan that made clothing, toys, and shoes.

   • 2015 April 24, McKirdy, Euan, “What a send-off: China's funeral strippers told to cover up”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 24 April 2015:

     In February 2014, a massive crackdown on prostitution in the southern manufacturing city of Dongguan, dubbed "Sin City" for its huge vice industry, raided 2,000 establishments and detained more than 900 people.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dongguan.

Synonyms

• (obsolete, from Cantonese) Tungkun, Tungkoon

Translations

a city of China

Arabic: دُونْغْقْوَان‎ m (dunḡqwān), دُونْغْغْوَان‎ m (dunḡḡwān) Chinese: Cantonese: 東莞, 东莞 (dung1 gun2) Mandarin: 東莞／东莞 (zh) (Dōngguǎn) Hungarian: Tungkuan Japanese: 東莞 (とうかん, Tōkan), ドングァン (Dongwan) Korean: 둥완 (dung'wan) Macedonian: Дунгуа́н m (Dunguán) Russian: Дунгуа́нь m (Dunguánʹ) Vietnamese: Đông Hoản

Further reading

• “Dongguan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “Dongguan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.