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Tongren

Syllables: Tong·ren

Tongren proper noun: a county-level city of Huangnan, Qinghai, China.

Proper noun (1)

Tongren

  1. A county-level city of Huangnan, Qinghai, China.
    • The protests this week have mostly unfolded in Tibetan towns in Qinghai Province, a vast, sparsely populated region that is historically important as a center of Tibetan culture.
      They began at a high school on Tuesday in the town of Tongren, known as Rebkong in Tibetan, and then widened.[…]
      The...2010 October 22, Edward Wong, “Tibetans in China Protest Proposed Curbs on Their Language”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2011, Asia Pacific

Proper noun (2)

Tongren

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guizhou, China.
    • Part of the bridge collapsed across a highway linking Fenghuang County to an airport in the Tongren region of neighboring Guizhou Province, according to a notice posted on the local government Web site on Tuesday.2007 August 14, “Bridge collapse in China kills at least 22”, in The New York Times, sourced from Beijing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2024, Asia Pacific

Origin of Tongren

From Mandarin 同仁 (Tóngrén).

From Mandarin 銅仁 /铜仁 (Tóngrén).

Questions about Tongren

What does Tongren mean?
Tongren means a county-level city of Huangnan, Qinghai, China.
What part of speech is Tongren?
Tongren is a proper noun.

Words near Tongren in the dictionary

  1. tongmen
  2. Tongnan
  3. Tongo
  4. Tongod
  5. Tongonan
  6. Tongren
  7. Tongrian
  8. tongs
  9. Tongshan
  10. tongsman
  11. tongsmen

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