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Dachen

Syllables: Da·chen

Dachen proper noun: a group of islands of Jiaojiang district, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China.

Proper noun

Dachen

  1. A group of islands of Jiaojiang district, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China.
    • The drills are near the Dachen islands, which Taiwan controlled until 1955 until being evacuated after other nearby islands were seized by Chinese forces in a bloody battle.
      Taiwan still controls the Matsu and Kinmen islands, off the coast of China's Fujian province, held since the defeated...2023 June 13, Ryan Woo, Albee Zhang, Ben Blanchard, “China holds live-fire drills in East China Sea north of Taiwan”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, sourced from BEIJING (Reuters), archived from...

Forms of Dachen

alternative formTachen

Origin of Dachen

From Mandarin 大陳 /大陈.

Questions about Dachen

What does Dachen mean?
Dachen means a group of islands of Jiaojiang district, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China.
What part of speech is Dachen?
Dachen is a proper noun.

Words near Dachen in the dictionary

  1. dacha-saltee
  2. Dachang
  3. dachas
  4. Dachau
  5. dachel
  6. Dachen
  7. Dacheng
  8. dachi
  9. dachiardite
  10. dachiardites
  11. dachs

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