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Dongjin

Syllables: Dong·jin/dɔŋ.d͡ʒɪn/

Dongjin proper noun: a town in Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.

Proper noun

Dongjin

  1. A town in Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
    • The one housed in the Tianxian Monastery, a nunnery in Dongjin, Xiangyang, was also made "by a human manifestation of the Great Compassionate One."1994, Chün-fang Yü, “Guanyin: The Chinese Transformation of Avalokiteshvara”, in Marsha Weidner, editor, Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 161
    • Xiangyang: Dongjin New District
    • The new Dongjin (Fig. 6) is an ambitious urban reconfiguration project for a relatively small centre on the secondary north-south link with Chongqing in the central Hebei Province; it is slowly taking shape based on individual compounds built and promoted by real estate developers.[…]Thanks to...2019, The City after Chinese New Towns: Spaces and Imaginaries from Contemporary Urban China, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 86

Forms of Dongjin

alternative formTung-chin

Origin of Dongjin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 東津 /东津 (Dōngjīn).

Questions about Dongjin

What does Dongjin mean?
Dongjin means a town in Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
What part of speech is Dongjin?
Dongjin is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Dongjin?
Dongjin is pronounced /dɔŋ.d͡ʒɪn/.

Words near Dongjin in the dictionary

  1. Donghai
  2. Donghak
  3. Donghol
  4. Donghu
  5. donging
  6. Dongjin
  7. Dongju
  8. Dongjyu
  9. dongle
  10. Donglegate
  11. dongles

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