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Dongcheng

Syllables: Dong·cheng/dʊŋˈt͡ʃʌŋ/

Dongcheng proper noun: a district of Beijing, China.

Proper noun

Dongcheng

  1. A district of Beijing, China.
    • In Beijing’s Dongcheng District where 560,000 residents live, some 936 neighborhood stores, restaurants, health clinics, nurseries, and cultural and educational centers have been established.1981, Laurence J.C. Ma, “Urban Housing Supply in the People's Republic of China”, in Urban Development in Modern China, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 236
    • Dongcheng Wenhuaguan, the culture museum in Dongcheng, acting like an events organizer, also has a similar group that meets every Saturday.2009 January 2, Gan Tian, “Learning Peking-opera pieces”, in Beijing Today, number 396, →OCLC, page 11

Forms of Dongcheng

alternative formTungcheng

Origin of Dongcheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東城 /东城 (Dōngchéng).

Questions about Dongcheng

What does Dongcheng mean?
Dongcheng means a district of Beijing, China.
What part of speech is Dongcheng?
Dongcheng is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Dongcheng?
Dongcheng is pronounced /dʊŋˈt͡ʃʌŋ/.

Words near Dongcheng in the dictionary

  1. dongba
  2. Dongbao
  3. dongbas
  4. Dongbei
  5. Dongchang
  6. Dongcheng
  7. dongchimi
  8. Dongchong
  9. Dongding
  10. donged
  11. Dongen

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