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Luding
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luding
English
Luding County
Alternative forms
en Lu-ting Wade-Giles
en Luting
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of en cmn - 瀘定.
Pronunciation
lo͞oʹdǐngʹen 1952 Luting Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1099 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1099/ 2
Proper noun
en county autonomous prefecture/Garzê p/Sichuan c/China.
en 2021-06-17 Li Yuxin 'First Bridge of Sichuan-Tibet' spans two cliffs w:China News Service https://web.archive.org/web/20210618125447/http://www.ecns.cn/video/2021-06-17/detail-ihanfwct7389232.shtml June 18, 2021 Luding (Dadu Rivier) Bridge on Ya'an-Kargilik County Highway spans the Dadu River in Luding County, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, Sichuan Province.It shortens the distance between Ya'an City and Luding County, greatly benefitting local inhabitants.
en 06 September 2022 China earthquake death toll jumps to 65 as aftershocks rattle Sichuan https://web.archive.org/web/20220906144911/https://www.efe.com/efe/english/portada/china-earthquake-death-toll-jumps-to-65-as-aftershocks-rattle-sichuan/50000260-4879018 06 September 2022 w:EFE As aftershocks of 3.0 magnitude or higher continued to rock the area, rescuers transported over 50,000 people from the hardest-hit Luding county, according to local media
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Translations
county of Sichuan, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 瀘定 lou4 ding6
Mandarin: cmn 瀘定 Lúdìng
Tibetan: bo ལྕགས་ཟམ
References
Further reading
en 1998 Luding Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1799 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1799/ 3
Anagrams
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