Etymology

Dongding

Dong·ding
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Today it means: An island of Jinhu, Kinmen County, Taiwan. Full definition →

Mandarin 東碇 /东碇
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from東碇 /东碇
  2. English todayDongding

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東碇 /东碇 (Dōngdìng).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.