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Tunhuang

Tunhuang is the alternative form of Dunhuang.

Meaning of Dunhuang

Proper noun

Dunhuang

  1. A county-level city of Jiuquan, Gansu, China.
  2. (historical) A former commandery in Gansu, China, under various imperial dynasties.
  3. (historical) A former kingdom in Gansu, China, during the early 10th century.
    Synonyms:
    Guiyi

Origin of Tunhuang

Borrowed from Mandarin 敦煌 (Dūnhuáng); Wade–Giles romanization: Tun¹-huang².

Questions about Tunhuang

What is Tunhuang the alternative form of?
Tunhuang is the alternative form of Dunhuang.

Words near Tunhuang in the dictionary

  1. Tungusologists
  2. Tungusology
  3. Tungyin
  4. Tungyung
  5. tunhoof
  6. Tunhuang
  7. Tunhwang
  8. tunic
  9. tunica
  10. tunica albuginea
  11. Tunica County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tunhuang (page history and authors); Dunhuang (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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