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Lin-t'ung

Lin-t'ung is the alternative form of Lintong.

Meaning of Lintong

Proper noun

Lintong

  1. A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
    • On the morning of June 24, we drove east to Huaching Pool, which is outside the city of Sian. This time my tourist guide was a young lady. Huaching Pool is situated near the north side of Lishan Hill in Lintung County, twenty-five kilometers east of Sian.[1980, T. Y. Wong, “Sian—the Old Capital”, in My Y-Shaped Travels in China, 1st edition, Smithtown, New York: Exposition Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35

Origin of Lin-t'ung

From Mandarin 臨潼 /临潼, Wade–Giles romanization: Lin²-tʻung².

Questions about Lin-t'ung

What is Lin-t'ung the alternative form of?
Lin-t'ung is the alternative form of Lintong.

Words near Lin-t'ung in the dictionary

  1. Lin'an
  2. Lin-fen
  3. Lin-i
  4. Lin-Kernighan heuristic
  5. lin-log
  6. Lin-t'ung
  7. Lin-ts'ang
  8. Lin-ying
  9. lin.
  10. Lina
  11. linable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lin-t'ung (page history and authors); Lintong (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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