Etymology

Dingyuan

Ding·yuan
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Today it means: A county of Chuzhou, Anhui, China. Full definition →

Mandarin 定遠 /定远
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from定遠 /定远
  2. English todayDingyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 定遠 /定远 (Dìngyuǎn).

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