Meanings
alternative Tateng · alternative Ta-teng
- A subdistrict of Xiang'an district, Xiamen, Fujian, China, formerly a town.
Dadeng Island, home to the newly built Dadeng Town market, has offered duty-free Taiwanese products since 1999.
2012, Beijing Review, volume 55, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 322 more examples
Agricultural zone established on Fujian's Dadeng Island Dadeng town on Dadeng Island, near Xiamen city in Fujian, has been designated an agricultural development zone.
1992, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4Xiang'an Administrative District has a coverage area of 412sqkm, a sea area of 134 sqkm and a shoreline of 75km. It has 180sqkm lands that can be used for urban construction and a forest coverage ratio of 31.75%. It has four towns (Xindian, Maxiang, Neicuo and Xinxu), one subdistrict (Dadeng Subdistrict) and one farm (Damaoshan Farm) within its jurisdiction.
投资厦门 厦门市招商办
2019 October 31, “Xiang'an District”, in Invest Xiamen [投资厦门 厦门市招商办], archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023 - An island of Dadeng, Xiang'an district, Xiamen, Fujian, China.
Dadeng Island, home to the newly built Dadeng Town market, has offered duty-free Taiwanese products since 1999.
2012, Beijing Review, volume 55, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 325 more examples
Agricultural zone established on Fujian's Dadeng Island Dadeng town on Dadeng Island, near Xiamen city in Fujian, has been designated an agricultural development zone.
1992, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4Dadeng Island (大嶝岛) In 1988, I was so entranced by my Chinese-English dictionary's 'model English sentences' that I read it cover to cover twice! (Read some of them on page 218). For example, how would you use the word "suppose?" The dictionary suggested, "I suppose she's gone to practice grenade throwing again." What a hot date she'd make! But after visiting Dadeng Island's Cross-Straits Conflict Museum, I understood what got China's lassies hot under the collar.
Amoy Magic
2003, William N. Brown, 美丽厦门 [Amoy Magic], Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 186Everywhere on the mainland the defeated KMT was forced to retreat except in the Guningtou battle (Quemoy battle) of 1949 when the KMT won a rare victory in a key battle which prevented the Communists from "liberating" Taiwan by force. In the same year, after taking over Xiamen and Dadeng Island, the Communist Party attempted to take over Quemoy and attack Taiwan/Penghu.
2011, Journal of Chinese Overseas, volume 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 172The Kinmen-Xiamen submarine cable project was launched in 1996, after top ranking officials from Taiwan and China telecommunication companies held a meeting in Taiwan, Lu said. The system has two cables, an 11-kilometer one that runs directly between Kinmen's Lake Tzu and Xiamen's Guanyin Mountain, and a 9.7 km cable between Kinmen's Kuningtou and Xiamen's Dadeng Island, Lu said.
2012 August 21, Esme Chiang, C.J. Lin, “Chunghwa Telecom completes 1st cross-strait cable system”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023, BusinessCarrying a luggage, Jiang took a taxi from Xiamen in Fujian province to Dadeng Island, where he rowed towards the Kinmen Islands of Taiwan 1.8 kilometers away. [...]As the Dadeng Isles, which comprises Dadeng, Xiaodeng and Jiaoyu, are located merely several kilometers away from Taiwan’s offshore county of Kinmen, they were used as military bases during the civil war in 1958.
2021 May 6, “Second Chinese man crosses Taiwan Strait in one week”, in Apple Daily, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2021
Origin
- Mandarin大嶝
- EnglishDadeng
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大嶝 (Dàdèng).
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Chinese Cantonese 大嶝
- 大嶝subdistrict; island
Chinese Mandarin 大嶝
- 大嶝 (Dàdèng)subdistrict; island
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Cite this entry
Dadeng. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dadeng
“Dadeng.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dadeng. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Dadeng,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dadeng.
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