Tongchuan
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word Tongchuan. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word Tongchuan, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say Tongchuan in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word Tongchuan you have here. The definition of the word Tongchuan will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofTongchuan, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: tóngchuán
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 銅川／铜川 (Tóngchuān).
Proper noun
Tongchuan
- A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
- 2006 October 29, “Briefly: 2 managers are jailed in blast that killed 166 - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 December 2022, Asia Pacific:
- The blast, one of the worst in China in decades, hit the Chenjiashan coal mine in Tongchuan in the northwestern province of Shaanxi just days after the pit had caught fire.
- 2022 December 22, Zoey Zhang, Bernard Orr, Martin Pollard, Ella Cao, Casey Hall, Marius Zaharia, Ben Blanchard, “Shanghai hospital warns of 'tragic battle' as COVID spreads”, in Lincoln Feast, Jacqueline Wong, Toby Chopra, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on December 23, 2022, China:
- Tongchuan, a city of 700,000 in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, called on Wednesday for all medical workers who retired in the past five years to join the battle against COVID.
Translations
prefecture-level city