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Dunhuang
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Dūnhuáng
English
Alternative forms
historical obsolete en Tunhwang
en Tun-huang Tunhuang Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1982 Selected Glossary The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/ Cambridge University Press 0521230993 79-42627 781411242 476, 485 https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/page/485/ The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,Tun-huang (Dunhuang) zh 敦煌en 1998 Blunden Caroline w:Mark Elvin Gazetteer Graham Speake Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File Checkmark Books 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 9770589M 232 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/232/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Dunhuang/Tun-huang/Shazhou/Gua 40°10′N 94°45′E, romanization of the en cmn 敦煌.
Pronunciation
en /dʊnˈhwæŋ/ /dʊnˈhwɑŋ/
do͝on′hwäng′Tunhwang or Tun-huang 1961 1
en Dun huang
Proper noun
en county-level city prefecture-level city/Jiuquan p/Gansu c/China.
en historical en A <<former commandery>> in <<p/Gansu>>, <<c/China>>, under various imperial dynasties.
en historical en A <<former kingdom>> in <<p/Gansu>>, <<c/China>>, during the early 10th century.
Synonyms
former kingdom en Guiyi
Derived terms
en Dunhuangology, en Dunhuang studies
Translations
county-level city in Gansu, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 敦煌 deon1 wong4
Mandarin: cmn 敦煌 Dūnhuáng
French: fr Dunhuang, fr Touen-houang
Indonesian: id Dunhuang
Japanese: ja 敦煌 とんこう, tonkō
Kazakh: kk Дұнхуаң
Korean: ko 둔황
Thai: th ตุนหวง
Vietnamese: vi Đôn Hoàng
former kingdom in Gansu, China
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 西漢敦煌國, cmn 敦煌國
References
Further reading
pn
en 2008 Dunhuang Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1074 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1074/ 1, 2