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Tongliang

Syllables: Tong·liang

Tongliang proper noun: a district of Chongqing, China.

Proper noun

Tongliang

  1. A district of Chongqing, China.
    • In the course of criticizing revisionism and rectifying the style of work, the CCP committee of (Tungpo) commune, Tungliang County, has used various methods to conduct socialist education for the cadres and commune members, in order to enhance their awareness of the line struggle and help them...[1973 August 29 [1973 August 27], “Socialist Education Unfolds in Szechwan Commune”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 168, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced...
    • Because the hamlet was the home of one of the few priests in eastern Sichuan, Catholics from as far away as Chongqing and the neighboring districts of Yongchuan, Tongliang, He Zhou, and Fu Zhou came to the hamlet seeking Gu to receive sacraments and to participate in worship.[...]The Ma family had...1996, Robert E. Entenmann, “Catholics and Society in Eighteenth-Century Sichuan”, in Daniel H. Bays, editor, Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Stanford, Cali....

Examples of Tongliang in a sentence

  • On April 1, 2008, the Tongliang county water authority in Chongqing, southwest China, approved Zhu Jiaping’s application for water usage.2012, Jigang Zhou, Peng Guangcan, Ceng Zhen, “China's Water Crisis May Be Helped by Trading Water Rights”, in Noah Berlatsky, editor...
  • Their first works were painted on the walls of an ancient town in Tongliang District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.2022 April 8, “Muralists decorate countryside with creativity, passion”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original...

Origin of Tongliang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 銅梁 /铜梁 (Tóngliáng).

Questions about Tongliang

What does Tongliang mean?
Tongliang means a district of Chongqing, China.
How do you use Tongliang in a sentence?
On April 1, 2008, the Tongliang county water authority in Chongqing, southwest China, approved Zhu Jiaping’s application for water usage.
What part of speech is Tongliang?
Tongliang is a proper noun.

Words near Tongliang in the dictionary

  1. tongkangs
  2. Tongking
  3. Tongko
  4. tongkonan
  5. tongkonans
  6. Tongliang
  7. Tongliao
  8. Tongling
  9. tongman
  10. tongmen
  11. Tongnan

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