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Datong
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dǎtōng dàtóng dàtǒng
English
Alternative forms
en Tatung Ta-t'ung Wade-Giles
Pronunciation
dä′to͝ong′Tatung or Ta-t’ung 1883 2 TsinghaiFormerly called Maopaisheng;
en Da tong
Etymology 1
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.Datong/Ta-t'ung romanization of the en cmn 大同 Dàtóng.
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Shanxi c/China.
en October 21, 2017 Chris Buckley In China’s Coal Capital, Xi Jinping’s Dream Remains Elusive https://web.archive.org/web/20171021114423/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-datong.html 21 October 2017 Asia Pacific Mr. Xi began proclaiming his dream since taking power five years ago, though he focused much of his early efforts on battling corruption. In Shanxi, the province that includes Datong, investigators have arrested so many corrupt cadres that the national government has declared the region to be in a state of “implosive corruption.”
en district city/Taipei c/Taiwan.
en July 14, 2015 Abraham Gerber Urban renewal plans for Datong District revealed https://web.archive.org/web/20150802235502/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/07/14/2003623009 02 August 2015 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Taiwan News 4 A cross-dike platform is among the plans for an urban renewal project in Taipei’s Datong District (zh 大同), officials from the Taipei City Government’s Department of Urban Development said yesterday.
en 19 December 2015 Ralph Jennings Taipei's historic Datong District gets new lease of life https://web.archive.org/web/20151225212956/https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel-leisure/article/1892346/taipeis-historic-datong-district-gets-new 25 December 2015 w:South China Morning Post 1563-9371 648902513 Travel Over the past five years or so, the Datong District has been rewarding travellers looking for tea, herbal medicine or puppet shows on self-guided tours of low-rises built during the late 19th century and the occupation by Japan, which began in 1895.Similar architecture can be found elsewhere in Taipei, but in pockets rather than as whole neighbourhoods, as in Datong.
en mountain indigenous township city/Yilan County c/Taiwan.
en 04 September 2023 James Lo Offices, schools closed in parts of Taiwan due to lingering effects of storm w:Focus Taiwan https://web.archive.org/web/20230904193303/https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202309040019 04 September 2023 https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202309040019 Society Up north in Yilan, only the county's Sih-Ji Elementary School in Datong Township is suspended, for both the school's main and satellite campuses.
en Taedong (river in North Korea): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
en 2008 September Dong Yaohui <t:zh 董耀会> To review the historical evolution of the Great Wall zh 步入长城的历史脉络 zh:王静<t:Wang Jing> Throughout the Great Wall zh 话说长城 https://archive.org/details/huashuochangchen0000dong/ zh:江苏科学技术出版社<t:Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House> 978-7-5345-6079-8 427442808 56 https://archive.org/details/huashuochangchen0000dong/page/56/ The Han Great Wall ran throughout Kuche, Gansu, Ningxia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and other provinces and autonomous regions, and ended to the north of DPRK’s Datong River estuary.
en 2014 April Judith Fröhlich Pictures of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 w:War in History https://www.jstor.org/stable/26098308 21 2 10.1177/0968344513504725 0968-3445 26098308 42423837 233 For instance, an illustration in the Dianshizhai huabao shows the battle at the Datong river near Pingrang in September 1894 (Figure 6).
en 2017 Hongzhou Zhang; Mingjiang Li China and Transboundary Water Politics in Asia https://books.google.com/books?id=8QVDDwAAQBAJ 135166980X 1017853303 The Yalu River was originally China's inland river. In 735 AD, during the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong set the boundaries along the Datong River, the south belonged to Shilla while the north was the territory of Tang.
en 2022 Dai Jianbing; Luqian Peng; Xiaorong Chen Currency Culture Exchange between China and Ancient Eastern Asia The Cultural Exchange History of Ancient Currency between China and Other Countries https://books.google.com/books?id=znVjEAAAQBAJ 1-5275-8058-X 1302001692 85 https://books.google.com/books?id=znVjEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 In the archaeological excavation, large numbers of Chinese coin, such as Half-Liang, Five Zhu, Huo Quan, Da Quan Fifty, Xiao Quan Zhi Yi, Huo Bu, etc., were unearthed from the original site of Lelang Prefecture (today's region of Qi Cheng Li on the South Bank of Datong River in Pyongyang, North Korea).
en
Descendants
Translingual: Datonglong genus
Translations
a city of China
Arabic: ar دَاتُونْغ m dātung
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 大同 daai6 tung4
Mandarin: cmn 大同 Dàtóng
German: de Datong n, de Tatung n
Hungarian: hu Tatung
Japanese: ja 大同 だいどう, Daidō
Korean: ko ^다퉁
Mongolian: mn ᠳ᠋ᠠᠲᠥᠩ
Cyrillic: mn Датун
Monguor: mgg Daatun
Russian: ru Дату́н m
Sarikoli: srh Datyŋ
Spanish: es Datong
Tibetan: bo རྟ་ཐང
Vietnamese: vi Đại Đồng
Etymology 2
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn ^大通.
Proper noun
en Hui and Tu autonomous county prefecture-level city/Xining p/Qinghai c/China.
en August 18, 2022 Beijing newsroom Flooding caused by heavy rain kills 16 in western China Michael Perry w:Reuters https://web.archive.org/web/20220818123259/https://www.reuters.com/world/china/flooding-caused-by-heavy-rain-kills-16-western-china-2022-08-18/ 18 August 2022 https://www.reuters.com/world/china/flooding-caused-by-heavy-rain-kills-16-western-china-2022-08-18/ China Heavy and sudden downpours in Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, population 403,368, of Qinghai province started late Wednesday, causing flooding on the mountains and triggered landslides, according to China's state broadcaster CCTV.
References
Further reading
en 2008 Datong 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 972 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/972/ 2
en 2-syllable words
Spanish
es:
Pronunciation
Datón +
Proper noun
es city c/China Datong