Tengchong

Teng·chong
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proper noun

A county-level city of Baoshan, Yunnan, China.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

proper noun

alternative T'eng-ch'ung

  1. A county-level city of Baoshan, Yunnan, China.

    An anti-Mao force has occupied many rural districts around Tengchung in west Yunnan and is directing peasants there to revolt against Mao Tse-tung, intelligence sources here reported Tuesday.

    [1969 March 17 [1969 March 12], “Rural Districts' Occupation”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 51, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taipei CNA, →OCLC, Communist China: Southwest Region, page E 2
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    The Chinese didn’t relent, however, and despite huge losses to both forces, the Y Force eventually took the city on June 10. Now they had to turn their attention to the Japanese garrison city of Tengchung, forty miles to Lungling’s north, and to the long, impregnable, and still-Japanese-controlled ridge of Sungshan, which still imperiled the Burma Road and its Salween River crossing.

    [2003, Donovan Webster, chapter 14, in The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 222–223

    Yet something is happening: On Sept. 14, in a ceremony at a war memorial in Tengchong, Yunnan, the remains of 19 soldiers of the Nationalist Chinese Expeditionary Force who died in Burma during World War II were reburied in China, a first since the Communists seized power in 1949.

    2011 October 19, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “China Honors Its War Dead, but Quietly”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2017, ASIA PACIFIC

    Wang and Javid Zarif also reaffirmed their commitment to Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, according to the Chinese foreign ministry, an implicit rebuke of the United States for abandoning the accord during their Saturday meeting in China's southwestern Tengchong city.

    2020 October 11, “China backs Iran nuclear deal, calls for new MidEast forum”, in France 24, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2020, Live news

Origin

  1. Mandarin騰衝 /腾冲
  2. EnglishTengchong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 騰衝 /腾冲 (Téngchōng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 騰衝 /腾冲
  • 騰衝 /腾冲county-level city in Yunnan, China
Chinese Mandarin 騰衝 /腾冲
  • 騰衝 /腾冲 (Téngchōng)county-level city in Yunnan, China

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Tengchong. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tengchong

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Chicago

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