Meanings
- A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.
Shensi has abundant coal deposits distributed throughout the province, one of the largest being at T’ung-ch’uan.
[1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “North China”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 125, column 22 more examples
The blast, one of the worst in China in decades, hit the Chenjiashan coal mine in Tongchuan in the northwestern province of Shaanxi just days after the pit had caught fire.
2006 October 29, “Briefly: 2 managers are jailed in blast that killed 166 - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2022, Asia PacificTongchuan, a city of 700,000 in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, called on Wednesday for all medical workers who retired in the past five years to join the battle against COVID.
2022 December 22, Zoey Zhang, Bernard Orr, Martin Pollard, Ella Cao, Casey Hall, Marius Zaharia, Ben Blanchard, “Shanghai hospital warns of 'tragic battle' as COVID spreads”, in Lincoln Feast, Jacqueline Wong, Toby Chopra, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2022, China
Origin
- Mandarin銅川 /铜川
- EnglishTongchuan
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 銅川 /铜川 (Tóngchuān).
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 銅川 /铜川
- 銅川 /铜川prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 銅川 /铜川
- 銅川 /铜川 (Tóngchuān)prefecture-level city
Cite this entry
Tongchuan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tongchuan
“Tongchuan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tongchuan. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Tongchuan,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tongchuan.
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