Dingyuan

English

Alternative forms

(postal romanization) Tingyuan
(from Wade–Giles) Ting-yüan

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 定遠／定远 (Dìngyuǎn).

Proper noun

Dingyuan

A county of Chuzhou, Anhui, China.
- 1993, Thomas L. Kennedy, transl., Testimony of a Confucian Woman: The Autobiography of Mrs. Nie Zeng Jifen, 1852-1942‎, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, LCCN 92-22989, OCLC 26129546, page 120:
  In 1853 he was named controller of the Lianghuai Salt District. He fell in battle against the Taipings at Dingyuan in Anhui.

Translations

county in eastern China

Chinese:
Mandarin: 定遠 (zh), 定远 (zh) (Dìngyuǎn)
Japanese: please add this translation if you can

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