Mudanjiang

See also: Mǔdānjiāng

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 牡丹江 (Mǔdānjiāng).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muːdɑːnd͡ʒiˈɑːŋ/
  • enPR: mo͞o′dän′jyäng′[2]
  • Hyphenation: Mu‧dan‧jiang

Proper noun

Mudanjiang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China
    • [2006, Andrzej M. Tomczyk, Japońska Broń Pancerna [Japanese Armor], volume 5, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 124, column 2:
      A railway and a road to Harbin ran through this area. Fortifications, machine gun nests and artillery units protected the approaches to the city of Mutanchiang. The Soviets started two simultaneous assaults — against Mutanchiang, executed by the 1st and 5th Armies, and on nearby Linkou, carried out by the 59th Rifle Corps of the 1st Army along with the tanks of 75th Tank Brigade.]
    • 2022 April 20, Xie Yu, Samuel Shen, “For China investors, COVID lockdowns are the clear and present danger”, in Reuters‎[2], archived from the original on 20 April 2022, China‎[3]:
      Workers set up surveillance cameras at a residential compound following cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang province, China April 14, 2022.
  2. Synonym of Mudan, a river in Heilongjiang, China.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Blunden, Caroline (1998), “Gazetteer”, in Cultural Atlas of China‎[1], Revised edition, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 232, 235: “Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription. […] Mudanjiang/Mu-tan-chiang”
  2. ^ Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Mutankiang or Mu-tan-chiang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1270, column 1
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