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Dadeng
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dàdēng
English
+ Subdistrict
Alternative forms
en Tateng Ta-teng Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 大嶝.
Pronunciation
en /dɑˈdʌŋ/ /dɑˈdɛŋ/
dä′dŭng′
en Da deng
Proper noun
en subdistrict district/Xiang'an sub-provincial city/Xiamen p/Fujian country/China formerly a town.
en 1992 Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East https://books.google.com/books?id=fwZXAAAAMAAJ 0960-0396 13715160 4 Agricultural zone established on Fujian's Dadeng Island Dadeng town on Dadeng Island, near Xiamen city in Fujian, has been designated an agricultural development zone.
en 2012 w:Beijing Review https://books.google.com/books?id=AODnA7FPc2cC 55 1000-9140 4550608 32 Dadeng Island, home to the newly built Dadeng Town market, has offered duty-free Taiwanese products since 1999.
en 2019-10-31 Xiang'an District https://web.archive.org/web/20230325212011/https://www.investxiamen.org.cn/detail/80.html 25 March 2023 Invest Xiamen zh 投资厦门 厦门市招商办 Xiang'an Administrative District has a coverage area of 412sqkm, a sea area of 134 sqkm and a shoreline of 75km. It has 180sqkm lands that can be used for urban construction and a forest coverage ratio of 31.75%. It has four towns (Xindian, Maxiang, Neicuo and Xinxu), one subdistrict (Dadeng Subdistrict) and one farm (Damaoshan Farm) within its jurisdiction.
en
en island subdistrict/Dadeng district/Xiang'an sub-provincial city/Xiamen p/Fujian country/China.
en 1992 Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East https://books.google.com/books?id=fwZXAAAAMAAJ 0960-0396 13715160 4 Agricultural zone established on Fujian's Dadeng Island Dadeng town on Dadeng Island, near Xiamen city in Fujian, has been designated an agricultural development zone.
en 2003 William N. Brown zh:美丽厦门<t:Amoy Magic> https://archive.org/details/isbn_9787561516041/ Xiamen University Press 7-5615-1604-5 670116778 186 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9787561516041/page/186/ Dadeng Island (zh 大嶝岛) In 1988, I was so entranced by my Chinese-English dictionary's 'model English sentences' that I read it cover to cover twice! (Read some of them on page 218). For example, how would you use the word "suppose?" The dictionary suggested, "I suppose she's gone to practice grenade throwing again."What a hot date she'd make! But after visiting Dadeng Island's Cross-Straits Conflict Museum, I understood what got China's lassies hot under the collar.
en 2011 Journal of Chinese Overseas https://books.google.com/books?id=oeNRAQAAMAAJ 7 1793-0391 61120730 172 Everywhere on the mainland the defeated KMT was forced to retreat except in the Guningtou battle (Quemoy battle) of 1949 when the KMT won a rare victory in a key battle which prevented the Communists from "liberating" Taiwan by force. In the same year, after taking over Xiamen and Dadeng Island, the Communist Party attempted to take over Quemoy and attack Taiwan/Penghu.
en 2012 w:Beijing Review https://books.google.com/books?id=AODnA7FPc2cC 55 1000-9140 4550608 32 Dadeng Island, home to the newly built Dadeng Town market, has offered duty-free Taiwanese products since 1999.
en 08/21/2012 Esme Chiang; C.J. Lin Chunghwa Telecom completes 1st cross-strait cable system https://web.archive.org/web/20230325212758/https://focustaiwan.tw/business/201208210024 25 March 2023 w:Focus Taiwan Business The Kinmen-Xiamen submarine cable project was launched in 1996, after top ranking officials from Taiwan and China telecommunication companies held a meeting in Taiwan, Lu said. The system has two cables, an 11-kilometer one that runs directly between Kinmen's Lake Tzu and Xiamen's Guanyin Mountain, and a 9.7 km cable between Kinmen's Kuningtou and Xiamen's Dadeng Island, Lu said.
en May 6, 2021 Second Chinese man crosses Taiwan Strait in one week Apple Daily (Taiwan) Apple Daily https://web.archive.org/web/20210617005732/https://en.appledaily.com/article/6VWAIKHWDZAYFDO5JCXSUFRIFI/ June 17, 2021 Carrying a luggage, Jiang took a taxi from Xiamen in Fujian province to Dadeng Island, where he rowed towards the Kinmen Islands of Taiwan 1.8 kilometers away.[...]As the Dadeng Isles, which comprises Dadeng, Xiaodeng and Jiaoyu, are located merely several kilometers away from Taiwan’s offshore county of Kinmen, they were used as military bases during the civil war in 1958.
en October 23, 2022 Han Cheung Taiwan in Time: ‘Eight years of vicissitude’ https://web.archive.org/web/20221023044851/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2022/10/23/2003787551 23 October 2022 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Features 13 The invasion force disbanded on Oct. 29, leaving 250 men stationed on the island. On Nov. 28, the White Hawk Defense Force’s first division took over and set up headquarters in today’s Jincheng (zh 金城) area. Meanwhile, the KMT moved the Kinmen County Government office to Dadeng Island (zh 大嶝島) to the north, which is now part of the city of Xiamen.
en
Translations
subdistrict; island
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 大嶝
Mandarin: cmn 大嶝 Dàdèng
Japanese: ja
Further reading
Dadeng, Tateng
Anagrams
en addegn danged