Datian

See also: dàtián and Dàtián

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大田 (Dàtián).

Proper noun

Datian

1. A county of Sanming, Fujian, China.
   • 2005 July 10, Howard W. French, “Uniting China to Speak Mandarin, the One Official Language: Easier Said Than Done”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 10, 2017, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     If Fujian Province can be said to have a Babel, tiny Datian County can stake a pretty solid claim. In this 800 square miles of rural central Fujian, where fields of rice and tobacco grow in the shadow of tall mountains, no fewer than five dialects are spoken in addition to Mandarin.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大田 (zh) (Dàtián)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Daejeon

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Datian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 972, column 1