Meanings
alternative Lin-t'ung
- A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
The Xian housing bureau also expanded existing curbs to include one more district, Lintong. It said the new purchase rules take effect immediately.
2019 June 20, Yawen Chen, Ryan Woo, “China's top performing property market in May tightens purchase rules”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2019, Asia2 more examples
On the morning of June 24, we drove east to Huaching Pool, which is outside the city of Sian. This time my tourist guide was a young lady. Huaching Pool is situated near the north side of Lishan Hill in Lintung County, twenty-five kilometers east of Sian.
[1980, T. Y. Wong, “Sian—the Old Capital”, in My Y-Shaped Travels in China, 1st edition, Smithtown, New York: Exposition Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35Vegetable farmers in the Lintong district of Xian, in Shaanxi province, were forced to plough over more than 10 hectares of celery growing in their fields last week after failing to find buyers, the Huashang Daily reported.
2016 June 13, Stephen Chen, “‘Tearful’ Chinese farmers lose tens of thousands of yuan as hot weather causes early celery harvest”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2024, China
Origin
- Mandarin臨潼 /临潼
- EnglishLintong
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臨潼 /临潼.
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Chinese Cantonese 臨潼 /临潼
- 臨潼 /临潼district
Chinese Mandarin 臨潼 /临潼
- 臨潼 /临潼district
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Lintong. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lintong
“Lintong.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lintong. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Lintong,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lintong.
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