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Tungkun

Tungkun proper noun: synonym of Dongguan: the Cantonese-derived name.

tungkun: synonym of Dongguan: the Cantonese-derived name
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Proper noun

Tungkun

  1. Synonym of Dongguan: the Cantonese-derived name.
    • The city of Tungkun lies not far from Canton, and outside its walls is one of the innumerable colonies of lepers to be found in that vast Empire.1906, John Jackson, Lepers, Thirty-one Years' Work Among Them, →OCLC, page 365
    • VILLAGE AT TUNGKUN
    • What can be done has already been demonstrated to a great extent at the German Rhenish Mission at Tungkun, forty miles outside Canton.[...]There is a strong Christian program at Tungkun, a happy spirit of fellowship and community cooperation.1948, American Mission to Lepers, China's Leprosy, →OCLC, page 13
    Synonyms:
    Dongguan

Synonyms of Tungkun

Origin of Tungkun

From the Postal Romanization of Cantonese 東莞 /东莞 (dung¹ gun²).

Questions about Tungkun

What does Tungkun mean?
Tungkun means synonym of Dongguan: the Cantonese-derived name.
What part of speech is Tungkun?
Tungkun is a proper noun.

Words near Tungkun in the dictionary

  1. tungiasis
  2. tungid
  3. tungids
  4. Tungkay
  5. Tungkuan
  6. Tungkun
  7. Tunglebung
  8. Tungoose
  9. Tungooses
  10. tungrovirus
  11. tungroviruses

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