T'ung-hua

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English

Etymology

From Mandarin 通化 (Tōnghuà) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻung¹-hua⁴.[1]

Proper noun

T'ung-hua

  1. Alternative form of Tonghua
    • 1913, Kinosuke Inouye, “The Coal Resources of Manchuria”, in The Coal Resources of the World, volume 1, Morang & Co. Limited, →OCLC, page 256:
      Coal is found in several places along the Hun-chiang on the north-east of Tʻung-hua.
    • 1929 March, Raymond A. Lane, “Up the Yalu River”, in The Field Afar, volume XXIII, number III, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83:
      Shortly after the party reached An-tung, it was reported that the Japanese officer had been killed by the bandits, who had carried their captive to the vicinity of T’ung-hua, the site of our latest foundation.
    • 1972, Lucien Bianco, “Secret Societies and Peasant Self-Defense, 1921-1933”, in Jean Chesneaux, editor, Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China 1840-1950, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 218:
      T’ung-hua hsien, between Mukden and Kirin, provides another example. During late 1927 and early 1928, T’ung-hua was the scene of a rather large uprising instigated by the Big Knife Society (Ta-tao Hui).
    • 1978, Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia, volume 20, H. S. Stuttman Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2698:
      They had permission to retreat to the fortified lines in the T'ung-hua area.

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References

  1. ^ Tonghua, Wade-Giles romanization T’ung-hua, in Encyclopædia Britannica

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