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Tungchow

Tungchow is the dated form of Tongzhou.

Meaning of Tongzhou

Proper noun

Tongzhou

  1. A district of Beijing, China.
    • The centerpiece of the plan will be an administrative center in the Beijing suburb of Tongzhou, a historic move that reverses decades of urban planning that wedged government offices into the imperial city center.2015 July 11, Ian Johnson, “Chinese Officials to Restructure Beijing to Ease Strains on City Center”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2015, ASIA PACIFIC
  2. A district of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.

Origin of Tungchow

Borrowed from Mandarin 通州 (Tōngzhōu).

Questions about Tungchow

What is Tungchow the dated form of?
Tungchow is the dated form of Tongzhou.

Words near Tungchow in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tungchow (page history and authors); Tongzhou (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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