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Kangting

Kangting is the dated 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 Kangting

Borrowed from Mandarin 康定 (Kāngdìng).

Questions about Kangting

What is Kangting the dated form of?
Kangting is the dated form of Kangding.

Words near Kangting in the dictionary

  1. Kangra
  2. kangri
  3. kangris
  4. kangs
  5. Kangshung Face
  6. Kangting
  7. Kangujam
  8. kanguroo
  9. kanguroos
  10. kanguru
  11. kangurus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kangting (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.

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