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Tungchu

Tungchu is the alternative form of Dongju.

Meaning of Dongju

Proper noun

Dongju

  1. An island of Juguang, Lienchiang County, Taiwan, in the Matsu Islands.
    • The main Nationalist island bases off Fukien include Big and Little Quemoy, which are within artillery range of Communist-held Amoy; Matsu, forty miles northeast of Foochow, and the Paichuan Islands (Hsichuan and Tungchuan), about fifteen miles southeast of Matsu. Among the major Chekiang bases are...[1972 [1952 November 24], Henry R. Lieberman, “Islands Outposts for War on Peiping”, in O. Edmund Clubb, editor, China, Arno Press, sourced from Hong Kong, The New York Times, December 7, 1952...
    Synonyms:
    Dongquan

Origin of Tungchu

1970s, from Mandarin 東莒 (Dōngjǔ) Wade–Giles romanization: Tung¹-chü³.

Questions about Tungchu

What is Tungchu the alternative form of?
Tungchu is the alternative form of Dongju.

Words near Tungchu in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tungchu (page history and authors); Dongju (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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