Dunhuang

Dunhuang

See also: Dūnhuáng

English

Alternative forms

• (historical, obsolete): Tunhwang
• (from Wade–Giles) Tun-huang, Tunhuang

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 敦煌 (Dūnhuáng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʊnˈhwæŋ/, /dʊnˈhwɑŋ/

Proper noun

Dunhuang

1. A county-level city in Jiuquan, Gansu, China.

Derived terms

• Dunhuangology, Dunhuang studies

Translations

county-level city in western China

Chinese: Cantonese: 敦煌 (deon1 wong4) Mandarin: 敦煌 (zh) (Dūnhuáng) French: Dunhuang, Touen-houang Indonesian: Dunhuang Japanese: 敦煌 (とんこう, tonkō) Kazakh: Дұнхуаң (Dūnxuañ) Korean: 둔황 (dunhwang) Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: Đôn Hoàng

References

1. “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China‎, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, LCCN 79-42627, OCLC 781411242, pages 476, 485: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Tun-huang (Dunhuang) 敦煌”

Further reading

• “Dunhuang, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Dunhuang at OneLook Dictionary Search