Tongren

See also: tóngrén

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: to͝ongʹrǔnʹ[1]
  • Hyphenation: Tong‧ren

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 同仁 (Tóngrén).

Proper noun

Tongren

  1. A county-level city of Huangnan, Qinghai, China.
    • 2010 October 22, Edward Wong, “Tibetans in China Protest Proposed Curbs on Their Language”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 July 2011, Asia Pacific‎[3]:
      The protests this week have mostly unfolded in Tibetan towns in Qinghai Province, a vast, sparsely populated region that is historically important as a center of Tibetan culture.
      They began at a high school on Tuesday in the town of Tongren, known as Rebkong in Tibetan, and then widened. []
      The principal of a primary school in Huangzhong County, northwest of Tongren, confirmed by telephone that peaceful protests had taken place.
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Etymology 2

From Mandarin 銅仁 / 铜仁 (Tóngrén).

Proper noun

Tongren

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guizhou, China.
    • 2007 August 14, “Bridge collapse in China kills at least 22”, in The New York Times[4], sourced from Beijing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 June 2024, Asia Pacific‎[5]:
      Part of the bridge collapsed across a highway linking Fenghuang County to an airport in the Tongren region of neighboring Guizhou Province, according to a notice posted on the local government Web site on Tuesday.
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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tungjen or T’ung-jen”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1960, column 2

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