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Tengchow

Tengchow is the obsolete form of Dengzhou.

Meaning of Dengzhou

Proper noun (1)

Dengzhou

  1. A county-level city of Nanyang, Henan, China.
    • According to Ying Mingquan (director of the People’s Armed Forces Department of Dengzhou Municipality, Henan Province, and standing member of the Dengzhou Municipal Party Committee), a military standing member should play three roles: the role of publicist (xuanchuan yuan), the role of a military...2007, Civil-Military Relations in Today's China: Swimming in a New Sea, M.E.Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 120

Proper noun (2)

Dengzhou

  1. (obsolete) The city of Penglai in Shandong in China.
    • Penglai, formerly Dengzhou, is an attractive place on the coast with a fine fortified harbour that is currently being restored. It is accessible from the city of Yantai, which has a convenient airport.2009, Stephen Turnbull, “The Sites Today”, in Chinese Walled Cities 221 BC–AD 1644, Osprey Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62

Origin of Tengchow

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 登州 (Dēngzhōu).

Questions about Tengchow

What is Tengchow the obsolete form of?
Tengchow is the obsolete form of Dengzhou.

Words near Tengchow in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tengchow (page history and authors); Dengzhou (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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