Etymology

Dingzhou

Ding·zhou
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Today it means: A county-level city of Baoding, Hebei, China. Full definition →

Mandarin 定州
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The story

  1. Mandarin · derived from定州“Orderly Prefecture”
  2. English todayDingzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定州 (Dìngzhōu, “Orderly Prefecture”).

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