Dachen

See also: dachen

English

Alternative forms

• Tachen

Etymology

From Mandarin 大陳 / 大陈.

Proper noun

Dachen

1. A group of islands in Jiaojiang district, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China.
   • 2023 June 13, Ryan Woo, Albee Zhang, Ben Blanchard, “China holds live-fire drills in East China Sea north of Taiwan”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters‎^[1], sourced from BEIJING (Reuters), archived from the original on June 13, 2023, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     The drills are near the Dachen islands, which Taiwan controlled until 1955 until being evacuated after other nearby islands were seized by Chinese forces in a bloody battle.
     Taiwan still controls the Matsu and Kinmen islands, off the coast of China's Fujian province, held since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taipei after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong's communists

Translations

islands

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大陳 / 大陈

  Mandarin: 大陳 / 大陈

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can