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Dongtou

Syllables: Dong·tou

Dongtou proper noun: a district of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, formerly a county.

Proper noun

Dongtou

  1. A district of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, formerly a county.
    • Tungtou County has accelerated its fishery mechanization by mobilizing the broad masses of fishermen to install, repair, and manufacture their own fishing machines.[1972 July 7 [1972 July 4], “Chekiang Fishing Industry Mechanizes Operations”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 132, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from...
    • He said more than 1.6 million tourists visited Dongtou county - which is an island - last year. Most visitors were from Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shanghai, but the number from inland provinces had increased rapidly in recent years.2009 April 20, “Yours for 15m yuan - a 30-year lease on an uninhabited island”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2021, Latest

Origin of Dongtou

From Mandarin 洞頭 /洞头 (Dòngtóu).

Questions about Dongtou

What does Dongtou mean?
Dongtou means a district of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, formerly a county.
What part of speech is Dongtou?
Dongtou is a proper noun.

Words near Dongtou in the dictionary

  1. Dongsheng
  2. Dongsong
  3. Dongsonian
  4. Dongsonians
  5. Dongting
  6. Dongtou
  7. Dongxiang
  8. Dongxiangs
  9. Dongxihu
  10. Dongxing
  11. Dongyang

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