Tonghua

See also: tōnghuà

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 通化 (Tōnghuà).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: to͝ongʹhwäʹ[1][2]
  • Hyphenation: Tong‧hua

Proper noun

Tonghua

  1. A prefecture-level city of Jilin, China.
    • 2019 April 8, Minnie Chan, “China to use 5G technology to tackle flow of refugees, smuggled goods over North Korean border”, in South China Morning Post‎[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 April 2019, Diplomacy‎[4]:
      The unit in Tonghua, Jilin province, signed an agreement with China Mobile – the largest wireless network operator – on March 23 to build the country’s first 5G checkpoint at Unbong, or Yunfeng Reservoir in Chinese, Legal Daily reported.
    • 2021 January 26, Salman Masood, Lin Qiqing, “Chinese city apologizes over food shortages during lockdown, and other news from around the world.”, in The New York Times‎[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 January 2021‎[6]:
      An official in the northeastern Chinese city of Tonghua, where residents are barred from leaving their homes amid a strict lockdown, apologized to residents who said they had not been receiving enough food.
      Tonghua, an industrial city of about two million people in Jilin Province, went into lockdown on Jan. 20 after the number of recent cases grew to nearly 100.
  2. A county of Tonghua, Jilin, China.
    • 2014 January 15, “China's Kangmei Pharma to cooperate with govt of Tonghua county on medical services”, in Reuters‎[7], sourced from Hong Kong and Singapore newsrooms, archived from the original on 05 October 2024:
      Kangmei Pharmaceutical Co Ltd
      * Says to cooperate with government of Tonghua county, where healthcare market is worth over 3 billion yuan ($496 million), on medical services

Translations

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tunghwa or T’ung-hua”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1960, column 2
  2. ^ “T’ung-hua or Tung·hwa”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎[2], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 784, column 2

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