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Tengchong

Syllables: Teng·chong

Tengchong proper noun: a county-level city of Baoshan, Yunnan, China.

Proper noun

Tengchong

  1. A county-level city of Baoshan, Yunnan, China.
    • An anti-Mao force has occupied many rural districts around Tengchung in west Yunnan and is directing peasants there to revolt against Mao Tse-tung, intelligence sources here reported Tuesday.[1969 March 17 [1969 March 12], “Rural Districts' Occupation”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 51, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taipei CNA, →OCLC, Communist...
    • The Chinese didn’t relent, however, and despite huge losses to both forces, the Y Force eventually took the city on June 10. Now they had to turn their attention to the Japanese garrison city of Tengchung, forty miles to Lungling’s north, and to the long, impregnable, and still-Japanese-controlled...[2003, Donovan Webster, chapter 14, in The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 222–223

Forms of Tengchong

alternative formT'eng-ch'ung

Origin of Tengchong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 騰衝 /腾冲 (Téngchōng).

Words formed from Tengchong

Questions about Tengchong

What does Tengchong mean?
Tengchong means a county-level city of Baoshan, Yunnan, China.
What part of speech is Tengchong?
Tengchong is a proper noun.

Words near Tengchong in the dictionary

  1. Teng
  2. Teng County
  3. Teng-chou
  4. Teng-feng
  5. tenga
  6. Tengchong
  7. tengchongite
  8. Tengchow
  9. Tengchung
  10. tenge
  11. tengellid

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