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Chengdong
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English
Chengdong District
Etymology
From en cmn 城東.
Pronunciation
chǔngʹdo͝ongʹ
en ʊŋ 2
en Cheng dong
Proper noun
en district prefecutre-level city/Xining p/Qinghai c/China.
en 2 April 1985 27 February 1985 Qinghai's Shao Haifeng Calls on People of Hui Nationality China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs !85-032 https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA360887 Xining Qinghai Provincial Service cmn 0891-351X 5397485 106 https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA360887/page/106/ According to QINGHAI RIBAO, on the second day of the lunar new year, Zhao Haifeng, secretary of the provincial CPC Committee, (Zhang Jifu), deputy mayor of Xining, and other leading comrades went to a new residential area in (Linjiaya), (Yuanshan) in (Chengdong) District, Xining City, to call on those people of Hui Nationality who were previously transferred to the rural areas and have now been approved to live in the city.
en 2022 David R. Stroup "God is a Drug": Ethnic Politics in the Xi Jinping Era Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims https://books.google.com/books?id=Cs5gEAAAQBAJ w:University of Washington Press 9780295749822 2021018886 1260169303 45–46 https://books.google.com/books?id=Cs5gEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA46 Though the walls have since been razed, the boundaries they once demarcated remain salient as Xining's contemporary street grid follows the path where they once stood. Most residents still recognize the city's Chengdong District, which sits on top of the former Muslim city, as the Hui Quarter.
Translations
district
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 城東
Japanese: ja
en 2-syllable words