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Datong

Syllables: Da·tong

Datong proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.

Proper noun (1)

Datong

  1. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
    • Mr. Xi began proclaiming his dream since taking power five years ago, though he focused much of his early efforts on battling corruption. In Shanxi, the province that includes Datong, investigators have arrested so many corrupt cadres that the national government has declared the region to be in a...2017 October 21, Chris Buckley, “In China’s Coal Capital, Xi Jinping’s Dream Remains Elusive”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC...
  2. A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
    • A cross-dike platform is among the plans for an urban renewal project in Taipei’s Datong District (大同), officials from the Taipei City Government’s Department of Urban Development said yesterday.2015 July 14, Abraham Gerber, “Urban renewal plans for Datong District revealed”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2015, Taiwan News, page 4
    • Over the past five years or so, the Datong District has been rewarding travellers looking for tea, herbal medicine or puppet shows on self-guided tours of low-rises built during the late 19th century and the occupation by Japan, which began in 1895.[…]
    • Similar architecture can be found elsewhere in Taipei, but in pockets rather than as whole neighbourhoods, as in Datong.2015 December 19, Ralph Jennings, “Taipei's historic Datong District gets new lease of life”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2015, Travel
  3. A mountain indigenous township in Yilan County, Taiwan.
    • Up north in Yilan, only the county's Sih-Ji Elementary School in Datong Township is suspended, for both the school's main and satellite campuses.2023 September 4, James Lo, “Offices, schools closed in parts of Taiwan due to lingering effects of storm”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2023, Society
  4. Synonym of Taedong (river in North Korea): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • The Han Great Wall ran throughout Kuche, Gansu, Ningxia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and other provinces and autonomous regions, and ended to the north of DPRK’s Datong River estuary.2008 September, Dong Yaohui [董耀会], “To review the historical evolution of the Great Wall [步入长城的历史脉络]”, in 王静 [Wang Jing], transl., Throughout the Great Wall [话说长城], 江苏科学技术出版社 [Jiangsu Science and...
    • For instance, an illustration in the Dianshizhai huabao shows the battle at the Datong river near Pingrang in September 1894 (Figure 6).2014 April, Judith Fröhlich, “Pictures of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895”, in War in History, volume 21, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 233
    Synonyms:
    Taedong

Proper noun (2)

Datong

  1. A Hui and Tu autonomous county in Xining, Qinghai, China.
    • Heavy and sudden downpours in Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, population 403,368, of Qinghai province started late Wednesday, causing flooding on the mountains and triggered landslides, according to China's state broadcaster CCTV.2022 August 18, Beijing newsroom, “Flooding caused by heavy rain kills 16 in western China”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2022, China

Datong meaning in Arabic and Vietnamese

Datong in Arabic

a city of China
دَاتُونْغ dātung

Datong in Vietnamese

a city of China
Đại Đồng

Examples of Datong in a sentence

  • In Shanxi, the province that includes Datong, investigators have arrested so many corrupt cadres that the national government has declared the region to be in a state of “implosive corruption.”2017 October 21, Chris Buckley, “In China’s Coal Capital, Xi Jinping’s Dream Remains Elusive”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific...
  • In 735 AD, during the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong set the boundaries along the Datong River, the south belonged to Shilla while the north was the territory of Tang.2017, Hongzhou Zhang, Mingjiang Li, China and Transboundary Water Politics in Asia, →ISBN, →OCLC, page...

Synonyms of Datong

Forms of Datong

alternative formTatung
alternative formTa-t'ung

Origin of Datong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大同 (Dàtóng).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大通 (Dàtōng).

Questions about Datong

What does Datong mean?
Datong means a prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
What is Datong in Arabic?
Datong in Arabic is دَاتُونْغ (dātung). See Datong meaning in Arabic.
How do you use Datong in a sentence?
In Shanxi, the province that includes Datong, investigators have arrested so many corrupt cadres that the national government has declared the region to be in a state of “implosive corruption.”
What part of speech is Datong?
Datong is a proper noun.

Words near Datong in the dictionary

  1. DATMO
  2. dato
  3. datolite
  4. datolites
  5. datolitic
  6. Datong
  7. Datooga
  8. datopotamab deruxtecan
  9. datos
  10. dATP
  11. DATs

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