Tong'an

Tong·an
US/(ˈ)tʰɔŋˈɑn/US/(ˈ)tʰɔŋˈæn/UK/ˈtʰɒŋˈɑn/UK/ˈtʰɒŋˈæn/

proper noun

A district of Xiamen, Fujian, China, formerly a county.

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TanguaTangoa

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Tungan

  1. A district of Xiamen, Fujian, China, formerly a county.

    ABC Xiamen Tong'an Rural Bank Limited Liability Company was established in June 2012 in Tong'an District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, with a registered capital of RMB100 million, 51% of which was held by the Bank.

    2019, “Discussion and Analysis”, in 2019 Annual Report, Agricultural Bank of China, page 56
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    Other cases include a dispute over sandy terrain in Yangzizhou, Puqi county, Hubei, on July 18, 1925 (ten killed, twelve wounded; Puqi WSZL, vol. 2, 1986, pp. 110-13) and one for three full years, from 1945 to 1948, in Tong’an, Fujian (Tong’an WSZL, vol. 9, 1989, p. 133).

    2001, Lucien Bianco, “Early Twentieth-Century Xiedou”, in Peasants Without the Party: Grass-roots Movements in Twentieth-Century China, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 206

    The video has been viewed more than 1,000 times after it was shared here on Twitter on October 20, 2021. Its simplified Chinese-language caption translates as: "On October 16, in Tong'an district, Xiamen, Fujian, city management officers were injured by sulfuric acid and 19 people were burned."

    2021 October 26, “This news report of a demolition incident in China's Xiamen city is from 2013”, in Agence France-Presse, sourced from AFP Hong Kong, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024
  2. historicalAn ancient county of Fujian, China, including present-day Xiamen, Kinmen and part of Longhai.

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Mandarin同安
  2. EnglishTong'an

Borrowed from Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 同安 (Tóng'ān).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 同安
  • 同安district
Chinese Mandarin 同安
  • 同安 (Tóng'ān)district
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

“Tong'an.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tong'an. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Tong'an,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tong'an.

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