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Erhtan

Erhtan is the alternative form of Erdan.

Meaning of Erdan

Proper noun (1)

Erdan

  1. Synonym of Erdan (island).
    • According to the leading organ of the PLA units stationed along Fujian's coastal areas, since the publication of the "Message to Compatriots in Taiwan," PLA units along Fujian's coastal areas have not fired a single shot at KMT troopts in Dadan, Erdan, Jinmen [Quemoy], Mazu [Matsu] or other...1984 January 30 [1984 January 26], Ding Gu, Huang Mingshan, “The Taiwan Strait Today”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 020, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA...

Proper noun (2)

Erdan

  1. An island of Lieyu Township, Kinmen County, Taiwan.
    • Our defense area was in the main island of Kinmen, and after a short period of stationing, we were shifted to Lieyu in October 1957. The troops were stationed there until August 7 in the following year, when we were transferred to defend Erdan Island, which was still called “Er-dan” , rather than...[2009, “Mr. Chen Hung-po”, in The 1958 Quemoy Crisis: An Oral History, Ministry of National Defense, ROC, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 87, 94

Origin of Erhtan

From Mandarin 二膽 (Èrdǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Êrh⁴-tan³, and/or 二擔,.

Questions about Erhtan

What is Erhtan the alternative form of?
Erhtan is the alternative form of Erdan.

Words near Erhtan in the dictionary

  1. Erh-lien
  2. Erh-lien-hao-t'e
  3. Erhardian
  4. erhlichiosis
  5. Erhlitou
  6. Erhtan
  7. erhu
  8. erhua
  9. erhus
  10. Eri
  11. Eri.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Erhtan (page history and authors); Erdan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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