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Tongguan

Syllables: Tong·guan

Tongguan proper noun: a county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.

Proper noun

Tongguan

  1. A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
    • In many localities it remained difficult to keep the ti-fang and pao-chia functionally apart. For instance, a ti-fang agent was instituted (1763) in each of the villages of T'ung-kuan Hsien (Shensi) to supervise the p'ai divisions and to assist the pao-chang in carrying out his police control...[1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, “Police Control: The Pao-chia System”, in Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century, University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63
    • Travelling by day and resting by night, Kuo Tieh-shan came to the province of Shensi. Since Mr Yin was the magistrate of Tungkuan County, Kuo had to go out of his way to call on him.[1973, Wu Ching-tzu, “Kuo Tieh-shan encounters tigers in the mountain. A monk from Sweet Dew Temple meets his foe”, in Yang Hsien-yi, Gladys Yang, transl., The Scholars, Peking: Foreign Languages...

Examples of Tongguan in a sentence

  • Tong Pass, the eastern gate of the land within the passes, was already established by the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, and its ruins now lie near Wucun Village in Tongguan County.1991 [1987], Zou Zongxu, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL...
  • * Unit to acquire gold mine in Tongguan county of Shaanxi province for HK$406 million2017 October 26, “BRIEF-China Mining Resources says unit to acquire gold mine for HK$406 mln”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 13...

Forms of Tongguan

alternative formT'ung-kuan

Origin of Tongguan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 潼關 /潼关 (Tóngguān).

Questions about Tongguan

What does Tongguan mean?
Tongguan means a county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
How do you use Tongguan in a sentence?
Tong Pass, the eastern gate of the land within the passes, was already established by the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, and its ruins now lie near Wucun Village in Tongguan County.
What part of speech is Tongguan?
Tongguan is a proper noun.

Words near Tongguan in the dictionary

  1. tonged
  2. tonger
  3. Tongeren-Borgloon
  4. tongers
  5. tonges
  6. Tongguan
  7. Tongguzbasti
  8. Tongham
  9. Tonghi Creek
  10. Tonghua
  11. tonging

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