Dingxian
Syllables: Ding·xian
Dingxian proper noun: synonym of Dingzhou, a town in Hebei, China.
Proper noun
Dingxian
- Synonym of Dingzhou, a town in Hebei, China.
- Synonyms:
- Dingzhou
- Synonym of Ding County in Hebei, China.
- From the late Qing on, some local elites tried to find ways to make farmers cleaner, better educated, less superstitious, and more technically proficient in agriculture (Duara 1991; Hayford 1990). One excellent example of this, discussed in Chapter 3, was the eager welcome that elites in Dingxian...2004, Elizabeth J. Remick, “A Theory of the Local State”, in Building Local States: China During the Republican and Post-Mao Eras, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Asia Center, →ISBN...
- Synonyms:
- Ding County in Hebei, China
Synonyms of Dingxian
Forms of Dingxian
| alternative form | Tingsien |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Ting-hsien |
Origin of Dingxian
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定縣 /定县 (Dìngxiàn, “Orderly County”).
Questions about Dingxian
- What does Dingxian mean?
- Dingxian means synonym of Dingzhou, a town in Hebei, China.
- What part of speech is Dingxian?
- Dingxian is a proper noun.
Words near Dingxian in the dictionary
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