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Hedong

Syllables: He·dong

Hedong proper noun: a district of Tianjin, China.

Proper noun

Hedong

  1. A district of Tianjin, China.
    • Hedong district is still a work in progress but has large expansion plans in the future. It is a quiet area of the city and has many walking areas for browsing that include the 600 year old scholar tree and large copper bells.2010 May, Jeanie Carroll, “History and Modern Perspective”, in 厉静, editor, Tianjin Basics [精彩天津] (Travel), Beijing: China Intercontinental Press [五洲传播出版社], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5
    • The two blasts, which went off some time after 8pm, happened in the city’s Hedong district, home to over 900,000 people, including many ethnic minorities, according to Tianjin’s yearbook.2023 June 14, Sylvie Zhuang, “3 dead after firework blasts hit apartment blocks in Chinese city of Tianjin; suspect detained”, in South China Morning Post (News), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Origin of Hedong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 河東 /河东 (Hédōng).

Questions about Hedong

What does Hedong mean?
Hedong means a district of Tianjin, China.
What part of speech is Hedong?
Hedong is a proper noun.

Words near Hedong in the dictionary

  1. hedn't
  2. Hednesford
  3. hedon
  4. hedonal
  5. Hedone
  6. Hedong
  7. hedonic
  8. hedonic adaptation
  9. hedonic adaptations
  10. hedonic calculus
  11. hedonic damages

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