Dongjin

Dong·jin
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/dɔŋ.d͡ʒɪn//dɒŋ-/

proper noun

A town in Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Tung-chin

  1. A town in Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.

    Travel time from Dongjin to Fancheng in Xiangyang City will soon be shortened from 45 minutes to less than 10 minutes.

    2022 November 1, “First highway tunnel in Hanjiang River opens”, in Luo Pan, editor, China News Service, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2022
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    The one housed in the Tianxian Monastery, a nunnery in Dongjin, Xiangyang, was also made "by a human manifestation of the Great Compassionate One."

    1994, Chün-fang Yü, “Guanyin: The Chinese Transformation of Avalokiteshvara”, in Marsha Weidner, editor, Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 161

    Xiangyang: Dongjin New District The new Dongjin (Fig. 6) is an ambitious urban reconfiguration project for a relatively small centre on the secondary north-south link with Chongqing in the central Hebei Province; it is slowly taking shape based on individual compounds built and promoted by real estate developers.[…]Thanks to Dongjin, the urban population in Xiangyang in 2012 was recorded as being 53% - in line with national objectives.

    2019, The City after Chinese New Towns: Spaces and Imaginaries from Contemporary Urban China, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 86

    Taking the show flat design of Dongjin Century City in Dongjin New District, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province as an example, Dongjin Century City, as the first batch of large-scale building groups in Dongjin New District, covers a total area of more than 2,600 acres, with an overall floorage of 6 million square meters, including 4.8 million square meters of fine decorated residences, independent shopping centers, super high-rise five-star hotels, office and apartment business clusters, commercial blocks, one stop brand education and community health centers.

    2020, Wenjuan Huang, Yang Liu, ““Design-Led Space” Series Show Flat Design -Taking Dongjin Century City in Xiangyang as AnExample”, in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, →DOI, page 2

Origin

  1. Mandarin東津 /东津
  2. EnglishDongjin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 東津 /东津 (Dōngjīn).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 東津 /东津
  • 東津 /东津town in central China
Chinese Mandarin 東津 /东津
  • 東津 /东津 (Dōngjīn)town in central China
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APA

Dongjin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dongjin

MLA

“Dongjin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dongjin. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Dongjin,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dongjin.

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