Word.ws English Dictionary

K'ang-ting

K'ang-ting is the alternative form of Kangding.

Meaning of Kangding

Proper noun

Kangding

  1. A county-level city of Garzê, Sichuan, southwest China.
    • The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-5.9 quake hit Saturday about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the town of Kangding in Sichuan province. China’s seismological agency put the magnitude at 6.3.[…]
    • No major damage was reported in the town of Kangding, where CCTV video showed residents strolling the town’s streets, looking up at the steep surrounding hillsides and talking on their cellphones.[…]
    • Kangding and the surrounding county have a population of 129,320 people, about 70 percent of them Tibetan.2014 November 22, Christopher Bodeen, “Strong quake in west China kills 2; 54 hurt”, in AP News, archived from the original on 18 May 2022
    Synonyms:
    Dartsedo, Tachienlu

Origin of K'ang-ting

From Mandarin 康定 (Kāngdìng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻang¹-ting⁴.

Questions about K'ang-ting

What is K'ang-ting the alternative form of?
K'ang-ting is the alternative form of Kangding.

Words near K'ang-ting in the dictionary

  1. K'a-shih
  2. K'ai-feng
  3. K'ai-p'ing
  4. K'ai-yüan
  5. k'ang
  6. K'ang-ting
  7. k'angs
  8. k'atun
  9. k'atunob
  10. k'atuns
  11. K'gari

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: K'ang-ting (page history and authors); Kangding (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “K'ang-ting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/k%27ang-ting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.