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Dongyin
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dòngyīn Dōngyǐn
English
Dongyin, Lienchiang
Alternative forms
en Tungyin Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -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/ 1, 5 Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Dongyin (isl)/Tung-yin (Taiwan), romanization of the en cmn 東引.
Pronunciation
en /dɔŋ.jɪn/ /dɒŋ-/
do͝ong′yĭn′
en Dong yin
Proper noun
en rural township county/Lienchiang c/Taiwan in the Matsu Islands.
en 19 June 2020 Shirley Lin VIDEO: More than 1000 sign up for military-style obstacle course race https://web.archive.org/web/20200628080551/https://en.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2003473 28 June 2020 https://en.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2003473 w:Radio Taiwan International The Military Trail Challenge is taking place in Dongyin Township on the Matsu Islands, a chain that sits directly next to China and is on Taiwan’s first line of defense.At the end of the race, all contestants will be rewarded with a feast of the local specialties and Dongyin Township’s special sorghum liquor.
en March 16, 2022 Sarah Wu; Yimou Lee; Ben Blanchard On Taiwanese island, drills underscore strategic importance and vulnerability Gerry Doyle https://web.archive.org/web/20220316042252/https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwanese-island-drills-underscore-strategic-importance-vulnerability-2022-03-16/ 16 March 2022 w:Reuters SOUNDS OF GUNFIRE"We're very used to these sounds," said Dongyin township chief Lin Te-chien, as he observed Wednesday's drills.
en
en island rural township/Dongyin county/Lienchiang c/Taiwan.
en Tungyung
en 2014 Steven Crook Taiwan https://archive.org/details/taiwan0000croo/ 2nd w:Bradt Guides 978 1 84162 497 6 913850406 76 https://archive.org/details/taiwan0000croo/page/76/ Taiwan's minor islands offer numerous opportunities. Matsu National Scenic Area, especially Dongyin Island, is excellent for spotting migrants between mid-April and mid-May and again from mid-September to mid-October.
en April 11, 2022 Kayleigh Madjar Deployment of short-range defense systems moved up https://web.archive.org/web/20220410162346/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2022/04/11/2003776385 10 April 2022 w:Taipei Times The army and navy have purchased six sets of the short-range weapons systems to be in part deployed on Lienchiang County’s Dongyin Island (zh 東引) and Kinmen County’s Wuchiu Island (zh 烏坵).The Chinese-language United Daily News (UDN) yesterday reported that the Wuchiu system is expected to be deployed by June, while the system in Dongyin should become operational by the end of this year.
en March 9, 2023 Meaghan Tobin; Vic Chiang Internet outage has Taiwan worried about threat from Chinese sabotage https://web.archive.org/web/20230310043106/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/09/taiwan-matsu-internet-access-china-fishing/ Asia Anita Tsai, who runs a restaurant in Dongyin, Matsu’s northernmost island, shared the same frustrations over the frequent internet disruptions. “At its worst, it took me five minutes to watch a ten-second video,” said Tsai.
en
Coordinate terms
en Xiyin, en Hsiyin
Translations
rural township
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 東引
Hokkien: nan-hbl
Mandarin: cmn 東引
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
Dongyin, Tungyin, Tung-yin, Dongyong, Tungyung, Tung-yung