Meanings
plural circular telegrams
- historicalA broadly distributed message, similar to a circular letter, transmitted as a telegram, especially in the context of diplomacy.
Kang found the circular telegram an effective way to contact his dispersed organization[…]
2025, Robert L. Worden, Jane Leung Larson, A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Chinese Empire Reform Association in North America, 1899-1911, BRILL, →ISBN, page 991 more example
[The diplomats's] communication was in the form circular telegram sent on January 13 to the American ambassadors to Germany, Austria , France , Great Britain and Italy, and the American ministers to Belgium and Portugal.[…]
1905 February 28, “The integrity of the Chinese empire”, in Journal of the American Asiatic Association, volume V, number 1, page 4
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 通電 /通电
- 通電 /通电 (tōngdiàn)broadly distributed message via telegraph
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