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Tatung

Tatung is the alternative form of Datong.

Meaning of Datong

Proper noun (1)

Datong

  1. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
    • Mr. Xi began proclaiming his dream since taking power five years ago, though he focused much of his early efforts on battling corruption. In Shanxi, the province that includes Datong, investigators have arrested so many corrupt cadres that the national government has declared the region to be in a...2017 October 21, Chris Buckley, “In China’s Coal Capital, Xi Jinping’s Dream Remains Elusive”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC...
  2. A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
    • A cross-dike platform is among the plans for an urban renewal project in Taipei’s Datong District (大同), officials from the Taipei City Government’s Department of Urban Development said yesterday.2015 July 14, Abraham Gerber, “Urban renewal plans for Datong District revealed”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2015, Taiwan News, page 4
  3. A mountain indigenous township in Yilan County, Taiwan.
    • Up north in Yilan, only the county's Sih-Ji Elementary School in Datong Township is suspended, for both the school's main and satellite campuses.2023 September 4, James Lo, “Offices, schools closed in parts of Taiwan due to lingering effects of storm”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2023, Society
  4. Synonym of Taedong (river in North Korea): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • The Han Great Wall ran throughout Kuche, Gansu, Ningxia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and other provinces and autonomous regions, and ended to the north of DPRK’s Datong River estuary.2008 September, Dong Yaohui [董耀会], “To review the historical evolution of the Great Wall [步入长城的历史脉络]”, in 王静 [Wang Jing], transl., Throughout the Great Wall [话说长城], 江苏科学技术出版社 [Jiangsu Science and...
    Synonyms:
    Taedong

Proper noun (2)

Datong

  1. A Hui and Tu autonomous county in Xining, Qinghai, China.
    • Heavy and sudden downpours in Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, population 403,368, of Qinghai province started late Wednesday, causing flooding on the mountains and triggered landslides, according to China's state broadcaster CCTV.2022 August 18, Beijing newsroom, “Flooding caused by heavy rain kills 16 in western China”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2022, China

Origin of Tatung

From Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 大同 (Dàtóng), Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-tʻung².

Questions about Tatung

What is Tatung the alternative form of?
Tatung is the alternative form of Datong.

Words near Tatung in the dictionary

  1. tatu
  2. tatued
  3. tatuing
  4. tatum
  5. tatums
  6. Tatung
  7. tatur
  8. Tatura
  9. Tatura East
  10. taturs
  11. tatus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tatung (page history and authors); Datong (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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