Tunghsin

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A form of Tongxin — A county of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Tongxin.

    In Tunghsin and Haiyuan counties north of the Liupan Mountains the Red Army helped the Hui people set up the Yuhai Hui Autonomous Government in August 1936, the first self-governing Hui power in Chinese history.

    1979 February, Yu-huai Ma, “Twenty Years of the Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVIII, number 2, Peking, →OCLC, page 34, column 2
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    Also on the afternoon of 27 October, Ulanfu and other members of the delegation met with representatives of minority nationalities from Kuyuan Prefecture, A-la-shan East Banner and Tunghsin County, representatives of people from the old revolutionary base in Yenchih County and representatives from 10 Hui autonomous counties (districts) and 2 Hui autonomous prefectures in the autonomous region and provinces concerned, who were in Yinchuan to attend the celebration, and had their pictures taken with them.

    1978 October 30 [1978 October 27], “Views Military Exercise”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 210, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republuc of China: Northwest Region, page M 2

Origin

  1. Mandarin同心
  2. EnglishTunghsin

From Mandarin 同心 (tóngxīn) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻung²-hsin¹.

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