Meanings
- A prefecture-level city of Shandong, China.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday inspected the ecological conservation work at the estuary of the Yellow River in the city of Dongying during his inspection tour in east China’s Shandong Province.
2021 October 21, “CCTV+: Xi inspects ecological conservation work at Yellow River estuary”, in AP News, archived from the original on 29 May 20223 more examples
2) THIS EQUIPMENT IS CONSIGNED TO THE CHINA PETROLEUM AND GAS EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, PEKING, FOR INSTALLATION AT TUNGYING, SHANTUNG PROVINCE, AND AT HSIENHSIANG, HONAN PROVINCE, WITH TWO SYSTEMS AT EACH LOCATION OPERATING INDEPENDENTLY OF EACH OTHER (I.E. UNCONNECTED) FOR USE IN OIL EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT, E.G. WELL-LOGGING AND ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA DERIVED FROM WELL-LOGGING AND PERFORATING EQUIPMENT.
[1976, “State Department Cable”, in US State Department, page 2Laura and Michael Knotts, instructors in the English department, have accepted one-year teaching appointments in the People's Republic of China. They will teach American and British Literature, Business and Technical Writing, Composition, and Conversational English at the East China Petroleum Institute in Dongying, Shandong Province.
1985 June 6, “Knottses Going to China”, in Campus Communique, volume XIV, number 40, UNCW Development Office, →OCLC, page 3The announcement of the revised death toll by the Dongying city government, which administers Lijin County, said that some of the bodies were “blown to pieces” and that family members’ “mood was stable.”
2015 September 7, Austin Ramzy, “Report on Toll From Shandong Blast Is Called ‘Coldblooded’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2023
Origin
- Mandarin東營 /东营
- EnglishDongying
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 東營 /东营 (Dōngyíng).
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Chinese Cantonese 東營 /东营
- 東營 /东营prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 東營 /东营
- 東營 /东营 (Dōngyíng)prefecture-level city
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Dongying. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dongying
“Dongying.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dongying. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Dongying,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dongying.
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