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Tungcheng

Tungcheng is the alternative form of Dongcheng.

Meaning of Dongcheng

Proper noun

Dongcheng

  1. A district of Beijing, China.
    • In Beijing’s Dongcheng District where 560,000 residents live, some 936 neighborhood stores, restaurants, health clinics, nurseries, and cultural and educational centers have been established.1981, Laurence J.C. Ma, “Urban Housing Supply in the People's Republic of China”, in Urban Development in Modern China, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 236

Origin of Tungcheng

From Mandarin 東城 /东城 (Dōngchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tung¹-chʻêng².

Questions about Tungcheng

What is Tungcheng the alternative form of?
Tungcheng is the alternative form of Dongcheng.

Words near Tungcheng in the dictionary

  1. Tunganistan
  2. Tungao
  3. Tungasan
  4. Tungate
  5. Tungates
  6. Tungcheng
  7. Tungchow
  8. Tungchu
  9. Tunghai
  10. Tunghsihu
  11. Tunghsin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tungcheng (page history and authors); Dongcheng (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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