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Tungting

Tungting is the alternative form of Dongding.

Meaning of Dongding

Proper noun

Dongding

  1. An island of Jinhu, Kinmen County, Taiwan.
    • The ARATS letter to the SEF said: As informed by mail by the relevant Fujian provincial departments, the Minpuyu No. 1205 (made of wood, with a deadweight of 3 tons, 12 horsepower, and carrying five people) from Jiangkou [translating 江口 (Jiāngkǒu)] Village, Qianting [translating 前亭] Town in Zhangpu...1995 July 7 [1995 July 5], “ARATS Denounces Shelling of Fishermen”, in Daily Report: China, number 95-130, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA Domestic Service...

Origin of Tungting

From Mandarin 東碇 /東椗 (Dōngdìng) cf. Wade-Giles romanization: Tung¹-ting⁴.

Questions about Tungting

What is Tungting the alternative form of?
Tungting is the alternative form of Dongding.

Words near Tungting in the dictionary

  1. tungstopterins
  2. tungstosilicate
  3. tungstosilicates
  4. tungstosilicic acid
  5. tungstous
  6. Tungting
  7. Tungurahua
  8. Tungus
  9. Tunguses
  10. Tungusian
  11. Tungusic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tungting (page history and authors); Dongding (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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