Meanings
alternative Tien-chiang · alternative Tienchiang
- A county of Chongqing, China.
Dianjiang County is located in the northeast of Chongqing City, in the upstream region of Yangtze River, and is 120km from the downtown of Chongqing.
2017, Resettlement Plan (Draft), Asian Development Bank, page 152 more examples
State media said the blast occurred Thursday in Dianjiang, a county in the Chongqing region, killing one worker. Schools were closed and about 6,000 people were evacuated.
2005 November 27, “Harbin prepares to turn the taps back on”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2022, Asia PacificIn Dianjiang county, Sichuan, a team of eleven people went around torching hundreds of straw huts. 'Destroy Straw Huts in an Evening, Erect Residential Areas in Three Days, Build Communism in a Hundred Days' was the leading slogan.
2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 53
Origin
- Mandarin墊江 /垫江
- EnglishDianjiang
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 墊江 /垫江 (Diànjiāng).
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 墊江 /垫江
- 墊江 /垫江 (zin³ gong¹)county
Chinese Mandarin 墊江 /垫江
- 墊江 /垫江 (Diànjiāng)county
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