T'ung-hua

A form of Tonghua — A prefecture-level city of Jilin, China.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Tonghua.

    They had permission to retreat to the fortified lines in the T'ung-hua area.

    1978, Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia, volume 20, H. S. Stuttman Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2698
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    Coal is found in several places along the Hun-chiang on the north-east of Tʻung-hua.

    1913, Kinosuke Inouye, “The Coal Resources of Manchuria”, in The Coal Resources of the World, volume 1, Morang & Co. Limited, →OCLC, page 256

    Shortly after the party reached An-tung, it was reported that the Japanese officer had been killed by the bandits, who had carried their captive to the vicinity of T’ung-hua, the site of our latest foundation.

    1929 March, Raymond A. Lane, “Up the Yalu River”, in The Field Afar, volume XXIII, number III, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83

    T’ung-hua hsien, between Mukden and Kirin, provides another example. During late 1927 and early 1928, T’ung-hua was the scene of a rather large uprising instigated by the Big Knife Society (Ta-tao Hui).

    1972, Lucien Bianco, “Secret Societies and Peasant Self-Defense, 1921-1933”, in Jean Chesneaux, editor, Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China 1840-1950, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 218

Origin

  1. Mandarin通化
  2. EnglishT'ung-hua

From Mandarin 通化 (Tōnghuà) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻung¹-hua⁴.

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