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Tungan

Tungan is the alternative form of Dungan.

Tungan is the alternative form of Tong'an.

Meaning of Dungan

Noun

Dungan pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A Muslim people originally from north-west China who currently reside in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia.

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Meaning of Tong'an

Proper noun

Tong'an

  1. A district of Xiamen, Fujian, China, formerly a county.
    • Other cases include a dispute over sandy terrain in Yangzizhou, Puqi county, Hubei, on July 18, 1925 (ten killed, twelve wounded; Puqi WSZL, vol. 2, 1986, pp. 110-13) and one for three full years, from 1945 to 1948, in Tong’an, Fujian (Tong’an WSZL, vol. 9, 1989, p. 133).2001, Lucien Bianco, “Early Twentieth-Century Xiedou”, in Peasants Without the Party: Grass-roots Movements in Twentieth-Century China, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 206
  2. (historical) An ancient county of Fujian, China, including present-day Xiamen, Kinmen and part of Longhai.

Questions about Tungan

What is Tungan the alternative form of?
Tungan is the alternative form of Dungan.

Words near Tungan in the dictionary

  1. tung-oil tree
  2. Tunga
  3. Tungabhadra
  4. Tungag
  5. Tungamah
  6. Tungan
  7. Tungani
  8. Tunganistan
  9. Tungao
  10. Tungasan
  11. Tungate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tungan (page history and authors); Dungan (page history and authors); Tong'an (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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