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Tongxin

Syllables: Tong·xin

Tongxin proper noun: a county of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China.

tongxin: a county of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China
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Proper noun

Tongxin

  1. A county of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China.
    • On June 1 of the same year he again ordered his henchmen, Ma-tung and Chen Ju-chin, to lead a revolt in Chen-chia-fen, T’ung-hsin Hsien.[1972, Donald E. MacInnis, “Religion and Feudalism”, in Religious Policy and Practice in Communist China: A Documentary History, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 170
    • The first Hui autonomous county was set up in the 1930s in Tongxin, southern Ningxia, as a demonstration of the early Communists' goodwill toward the Hui.1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87

Forms of Tongxin

alternative formTunghsin

Origin of Tongxin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 同心 (Tóngxīn).

Questions about Tongxin

What does Tongxin mean?
Tongxin means a county of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China.
What part of speech is Tongxin?
Tongxin is a proper noun.

Words near Tongxin in the dictionary

  1. tonguings
  2. tonguy
  3. Tongva
  4. Tongvas
  5. Tongxiang
  6. Tongxin
  7. Tongxu
  8. Tongyong Pinyin
  9. Tongyu
  10. tongzhi
  11. tongzhis

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