Dunhuang
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See also: Dūnhuáng
English
Alternative forms
- (historical, obsolete): Tunhwang
- Tun-huang, Tunhuang (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 敦煌 (Dūnhuáng).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Dunhuang
- A county-level city in Jiuquan, Gansu, China.
Derived terms
Translations
county-level city in western China
References
- ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 485: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Tun-huang (Dunhuang) 敦煌”
Further reading
- “Dunhuang, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Dunhuang”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dunhuang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1074, columns 1, 2