T'u-men

A form of tumen — A river forming part of the border between Jilin, China and North Korea, and the border between Rasŏn, North Korea and Khasansky district, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Tumen (River).

    Hui-ning and Hoi Ryöng (42° 22' N and 129° 43' E) was a city on the T'u-men River, which the Chinese in Ninguta used as their main market for trade with the Koreans (LPCL 3, 4b).

    1966, Lo-shu Fu, A Documentary Chronicle of Sino-Western Relations (1644–1820), volume 2, University of Arizona Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 431
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    Article V.—In consideration of the numerous difficulties arising from the authority exercised by local officials over the legal traffic at such places on the boundary as I-chou, Hui-ning, and Ch’ing-yuan, it has now been decided that the people on the frontier shall be free to go to and fro and trade as they please at Ts’e-men and I-chou on the two sides of the Ya-lu River, and at Hun-ch’un and Hui-ning on the two sides of the T’u-men River.

    1882, G. W. Keeton, “Regulations for Maritime and Overland Trade between Chinese and Korean Subjects, 1882”, in The Development of Extraterritoriality in China, volume II, Longmans, Green & Co., published 1928, →OCLC, page 341

    We may also expect to hear that a Corean Consulate is to be established at Vladivostok; the opening of the Tʻu-mên river will, no doubt, be secured and telegraphic communication established with Vladivostok and such other places as may be necessary.[…]The Tʻu-mên river flows close to the borders of Manchuria and its opening will probably increase the serviceableness of Possiet, which is near its mouth.

    [1885 July 7 [1885 June 30], “THE RUSSO-KOREAN TREATY.”, in China Mail, volume XLI, number 6846, sourced from North-China Daily News, →OCLC, page 3, column 5

    In the 1380s the tribe moved southward and came to the lower valley of the T’u-men 圖們 River and finally settled down around Wo-mu-ho 斡木河, the present Hoeryong 會寧, in north Korea.

    明代名人傳

    1976, Chun Hae-jong, “Menggetimur”, in L. Carrington Goodrich, Chaoying Fang, editors, Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644 [明代名人傳], volume II, New York; London: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 1065–1066

    On October 1, 1950, she reported, the United States crossed the 38th parallel and pressed toward the Yalu and T'u-men rivers, both within China's borders, and from there launched further attacks.

    1977, Roxane Witke, Comrade Chiang Chʻing, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 230–231

Origin

  1. Mandarin圖們 /图们
  2. EnglishT'u-men

From Mandarin 圖們 /图们 (Túmén) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻu³-mên².

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