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Makung

Makung is the alternative form of Magong.

Meaning of Magong

Proper noun

Magong

  1. A county-administered city in Penghu County, Taiwan.
    • My first stop upon disembarking from the plane was the Magong Teacher's Hostel in "downtown" Magong. This was to be my home for several weeks during my first and third trips. The city of Magong, the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Pescadores, is a sleepy fishing harbor of about...1979 July, Cornelius C. Kubler, “Life in the Pescadores”, in The Asia Mail, page 12, column 2

Origin of Makung

Borrowed from Mandarin 馬公 (Mǎgōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Ma³-kung¹.

Questions about Makung

What is Makung the alternative form of?
Makung is the alternative form of Magong.

Words near Makung in the dictionary

  1. Makua
  2. Makueni
  3. makuk
  4. makuks
  5. Makulapnit
  6. Makung
  7. makungwi
  8. makunouchi
  9. makurakotoba
  10. Makurdi
  11. Makuria

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Makung (page history and authors); Magong (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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