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Teng

Teng proper noun: a surname from Hokkien. Also the ellipsis of Teng County.

Proper noun (1)

Teng (plural Tengs)

  1. A surname from Hokkien.

Proper noun (2)

Teng (plural Tengs)

  1. A surname from Mandarin.
    • The source said Teng Hsiao-ping, when he visited Kwangchow early this year, ordered the arrest of the younger Wang to enforce the new purification campaign.1982 April 4, “Scandal triggers friction”, in Free China Weekly [自由中國週報], volume XXII, number 13, Taipei, page 3, column 3
    • In his speech at the mass rally mentioned above, Chiang Tse-min described Teng as a loyal comrade-in-arms of Mao Tse-tung and the most prominent successor and developer of Mao Tse-tung thought. He stressed the way that both Teng and Mao formulated their policies in line with the specific situation...1996, An-chia Wu, “The CCP's "Socialist Market Economy" Proposal”, in Bih-jaw Lin, James T. Myers, editors, Contemporary China in the Post-Cold War Era, University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN...

Proper noun (3)

Teng

  1. A county of Wuzhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
    • The production command group of Kwangsi Regional Revolutionary Committee recently held in Teng County an on-the-spot symposium on rape production.1972 April 13 [1972 April 6], “Kwangsi Symposium Discusses Production of Rape Plant”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 73, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced...
    • Dozens of family members congregated at the heavily-secured checkpoint leading to the site in Teng county in southern China's Guangxi region in pairs or small groups on Wednesday.2022 March 23, Martin Quin Pollard, Thomas Suen, Tony Munroe, “At China plane crash site, relatives wait in grim vigil”, in Alexandra Hudson, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 23 Mar...

Also used as

Teng is also the ellipsis of Teng County.

Examples of Teng in a sentence

  • In his speech at the mass rally mentioned above, Chiang Tse-min described Teng as a loyal comrade-in-arms of Mao Tse-tung and the most prominent successor and developer of Mao Tse-tung thought.1996, An-chia Wu, “The CCP's "Socialist Market Economy" Proposal”, in Bih-jaw Lin, James T. Myers, editors, Contemporary China in the...
  • Prosecutors said a man surnamed Teng (鄧) admitted to placing a note in the front windshield wiper of a car parked in Kaohsiung’s Linyuan District (林園) in October last year.2023 July 27, Huang Chia-lin, Jason Pan, “Court fines man for leaving ‘threatening’ note in parking furor”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Forms of Teng

pluralTengs
alternative formDeng

Origin of Teng

Romanization of Hokkien 鄧／邓 (Tēng). Doublet of Dinh.

From Mandarin 鄧 /邓 (Dèng), Wade–Giles romanization: Têng⁴. Doublet of Dinh.

From Mandarin 藤 (Téng).

Phrases with Teng

Questions about Teng

What does Teng mean?
Teng means a surname from Hokkien.
How do you use Teng in a sentence?
In his speech at the mass rally mentioned above, Chiang Tse-min described Teng as a loyal comrade-in-arms of Mao Tse-tung and the most prominent successor and developer of Mao Tse-tung thought.
What part of speech is Teng?
Teng is a proper noun.

Words near Teng in the dictionary

  1. tenfolding
  2. tenfoldness
  3. tenfolds
  4. tenfoot
  5. tenfoots
  6. Teng
  7. Teng County
  8. Teng-chou
  9. Teng-feng
  10. tenga
  11. Tengchong

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