Kuandian
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English
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寬甸／宽甸 (Kuāndiàn).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kuandian
- A Manchu autonomous county in Dandong, Liaoning, China.
- 2017 February 22, Brenda Goh, Meng Meng, Beijing newsroom, “Clampdown on North Korean trade squeezes Chinese border towns”, in Alex Richardson, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 22 February 2017, Business News:
- "A few of my friends who used to smuggle goods from North Korea have gotten out of the business in the last two years because it's getting dangerous and not as lucrative," said an owner of a events hall in Kuandian, about 100 km (60 miles) north of Dandong, the largest city on the border.
Translations
Manchu autonomous county
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kwantien or K’uan-tien”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 998, column 2
Further reading
- Kuandian, Kuantien, K'uan-tien, K'uantien, Kuan-tien at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Kuandian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1624, column 3