Tongling
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 銅陵 / 铜陵 (Tónglíng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɔŋ(ˈ)lɪŋ/
Proper noun
Tongling
- A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
- [1922, Bertrand Russell, “Industrialism in China”, in The Problem of China[1], London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 233:
- The second item in the China Year Book's list is the Tungkuan Shan mines. All that is said about these is as follows : "Tungling district on the Yangtze, 55 miles above Wuhu, Anhui province.]
Translations
prefecture-level city in central China
Anagrams
Amis
Proper noun
Tongling
- a male given name
Usage notes
- Amis personal name is composed of: given name + parent's name (chiefly mother's name) or given name + parent's name + clan's name. The former is used by the subgroup distributed in the northern part of Taiwan, while the latter is used by the subgroup distributed in the southern part of Taiwan, such as Coastal, Malan, Hengchun, etc., where there is a clan society.
References
- Center for aboriginal studies (2014) “Tongling”, in 原住民族人名譜 [Dictionary of Aboriginal Names in Taiwan][2] (in Chinese), Taipei: Council of Indigenous Peoples