Meanings
- A county of Hainan, China.
The chicken farm is located in Xinzhu town, Ding'an County, Hainan Province, and covers an area of 0.3 km².
2025, Peipei Hao with Xingyi Jiang, Xiaodong Rao, Wei Liang, and Yanyun Zhang, “Population Monitoring of the Red Junglefowl Based on Acoustic Signal Recognition Technology”, in Ecology and Evolution, volume 15, number 4, page e712804 more examples
On 10 February 1939, the Formosa Mixed Brigade, in close cooperation with naval units, made surprise landings on north Hainan Island and, meeting very little resistance, by midday had occupied Haikoushih. On the same day, the Brigade advanced and occupied Tingan.
[1957, China Area of Operations Record July 1937 - November 1941, United States Army, page 61Assisted by the work groups of the Hainan regional and Tingan County public security bureaus, the party committee of (Hsienkou) commune in Tingan County recently launched education in the socialist rule of law in the commune on a grand scale.
[1978 November 17 [1978 November 10], “Hainan Commune Conducts Education in Rule of Law”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 223, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Haikow Hainan Island Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China Central-South Region, page H 7While details of his case are yet to emerge, his relative Chen Jinchang , Dingan county police chief in Hainan province, is also being investigated for graft.
2015 February 8, Mimi Lau, “Corruption casts shadow over Guangdong congress”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2017, PoliticsThe couple from Ding'an County on the island province of Hainan, have made thousands of Zongzi, a snack associated with the festival, since June.
2018 June 16, “Across China: Sticky rice dumplings a money magnet on Chinese island”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Xinhua
Origin
- Mandarin定安
- EnglishDing'an
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定安 (Dìng'ān).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 定安
- 定安 (ding⁶ on¹)county
Chinese Mandarin 定安
- 定安 (Dìng'ān)county
Cite this entry
Ding'an. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ding'an
“Ding'an.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ding'an. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Ding'an,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ding'an.
Source: Ding'an on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.