Meanings
- A county of Hainan, China.
On July 8 this year, under the pretext of "applying for an audience with the higher authorities to appeal for help," some individual evildoers in Hainan Island’s Tunchang County instigated and gathered together over 300 people in the county town who were unaware of the truth.
1979 August 22 [1979 August 17], “Guangdong Reports Unrest on Hainan Island”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 164, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Guangzhou Guangdong Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China Central-South Region, page P 1; republished as “Guangdong Reports Unrest on Hainan Island”, in John P. Burns, Stanley Rosen, editors, Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China: A Documentary Survey with Analysis, 1986, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114
Origin
- Mandarin屯昌
- EnglishTunchang
From Mandarin 屯昌 (Túnchāng).
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Chinese Cantonese 屯昌
- 屯昌 (tyun⁴ coeng¹)county
Chinese Mandarin 屯昌
- 屯昌 (Túnchāng)county
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Tunchang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tunchang
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