Dongli

Dong·li
D2O1N1G2L1I1

proper noun

A district of Tianjin, China.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A district of Tianjin, China.

    Workers at the factory in the Dongli District of Tianjin, a near Beijing, stopped work on Tuesday afternoon, demanding wage rises and improved benefits, said the Xinhua report.

    2010 June 30, Chris Buckley, “China strike hits Japanese electronics plant - report”, in Alex Richardson, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2023, MONEY NEWS
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    Since September of this year (Zhang Zhendong), worker at a certain workshop under the Tianjin Woolen Mill, took advantage of his working post and ganged up with three people from Dongli district, including (Sun Baokui), to steal, on three occasions, more than 380 kg of wool delivered by Australia for processing in the mill.

    1993 November 10 [1993 November 9], “Tianjin Reports on Struggle Against Crime”, in Daily Report: China, number 93-216, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Tianjin People's Radio, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 53, column 1

    Enterprises continue to put more money into control of water pollution (42 per cent of total pollution control funds invested) than into control of other types of pollution and the Dongli district in Tianjin is home to China’s largest sewage works.

    1998, Richard Louis Edmonds, “Geography and Natural Resources”, in Brian Hook, editor, Beijing and Tianjin: Towards a Millennial Megalopolis, volume 4, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 78–79

Origin

  1. Mandarin東麗 /东丽
  2. EnglishDongli

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東麗 /东丽 (Dōnglì).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 東麗 /东丽
  • 東麗 /东丽district
Chinese Mandarin 東麗 /东丽
  • 東麗 /东丽 (Dōnglì)district

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

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

Chicago

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