Dingbian

Ding·bian
D2I1N1G2B3I1A1N1

proper noun

A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Ting-pien · alternative Tingpien

  1. A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

    Dingbian County is situated in the northern part of Shaanxi Province, northwest of China.

    2020, Jianhua Wu with Yuxin Zhang and Hui Zhou, “Groundwater chemistry and groundwater quality index incorporating health risk weighting in Dingbian County, Ordos basin of northwest China”, in Geochemistry, volume 80, number 4, page 125607
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    Other motor roads include one running northwestward from Yenan via Ching-pien to the salt-producing area in the vicinity of Ting-pien. Another runs from Ting-pien southeast to Ch’ing-yang. A fourth road reportedly runs from Ch’ing-chien on the Yenan-Mi-chih road to Ching-pien on the Yenan-Ting-pien road.

    [1968, Lyman P. Van Slyke, editor, The Chinese Communist Movement: A Report of the United States War Department, July 1945, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 152

    In April 1942 the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government established a Hui nationality autonomous area consisting of the fourth and fifth districts of Dingbian County and two natural villages of Chengguan Town.

    1992, Deng Xiaoping, Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 331

    Twelve girls were poisoned on Monday night at their school in Dingbian county of Shaanxi province, Xinhua news agency reported. The sole survivor was in serious condition, it added.

    2008 December 2, Yu Le, “Carbon monoxide kills 11 Chinese schoolgirls”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2023, WORLD NEWS

    Dingbian County, which is located in the northwest of Shaanxi province, China, bordering the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to the west, Gansu to the south and Inner Mongolia to the north, is chosen as the study area.

    2022, Zhuo Jiang with Chaoying Zhao, Ming Yan, Baohang Wang, and Xiaojie Liu, “The Early Identification and Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Loess Landslides with SENTINEL-1A Datasets: A Case of Dingbian County, China”, in Remote Sensing, volume 14, number 23, page 6009

    In the northwest of Dingbian county (Shaanxi province, China), there exists a belt of hypersaline habitats extending from the west to the north consisting of saline-alkali soil and salt lakes.

    2025, Yue Ding with Juntao Ke, Tao Hong, Aodi Zhang, Xue Wu, Xinran Jiang, Shilong Shao, Ming Gong, Shengda Zhao, Liang Shen, and Shaoxing Chen, “Microbial diversity and ecological roles of halophilic microorganisms in Dingbian (Shaanxi, China) saline-alkali soils and salt lakes”, in BMC Microbiology, volume 25, page 287

Origin

  1. Mandarin定邊 /定边
  2. EnglishDingbian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 定邊 /定边 (Dìngbiān).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 定邊 /定边
  • 定邊 /定边 (ding⁶ bin¹)county
Chinese Mandarin 定邊 /定边
  • 定邊 /定边 (Dìngbiān)county
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