Tongxin

Tong·xin
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proper noun

A county of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Tunghsin

  1. A county of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China.

    On June 1 of the same year he again ordered his henchmen, Ma-tung and Chen Ju-chin, to lead a revolt in Chen-chia-fen, T’ung-hsin Hsien.

    [1972, Donald E. MacInnis, “Religion and Feudalism”, in Religious Policy and Practice in Communist China: A Documentary History, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 170
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    The first Hui autonomous county was set up in the 1930s in Tongxin, southern Ningxia, as a demonstration of the early Communists' goodwill toward the Hui.

    1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87

    At the bottom of Ningxia's economic ladder are peasants like Ma Junyi, 65, who lives in a cave he burrowed out of a hillside in Tongxin county, 120 miles south of Yinchuan. The average annual per capita income for Tongxin's farmers is $50, which puts Mr. Ma and his neighbors in the village of Wudaoling above the government's official poverty line.

    1996 May 14, Richard Tomlinson, “Poverty Meets Consumerism in Inland China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2022, World

    In August 2018, in Ningxia's Tongxin county, authorities attempted to demolish the Weizhou Grand Mosque, claiming it lacked the right building permits.[…] In Ningxia's Tongxin county, a rare female-only Islamic school once renowned across China's north-central and west is being readied for demolition after it was shut down last year to make way for residential development.

    2019 September 26, Emily Feng, “'Afraid We Will Become The Next Xinjiang': China's Hui Muslims Face Crackdown”, in NPR, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2019

Origin

  1. Mandarin同心
  2. EnglishTongxin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 同心 (Tóngxīn).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 同心
  • 同心county
Chinese Mandarin 同心
  • 同心 (Tóngxīn)county
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