Dianjiang

English

Alternative forms

• Tien-chiang, Tienchiang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 墊江／垫江 (Diànjiāng).

Proper noun

Dianjiang

1. A county of Chongqing, China.
   • 2005 November 27, “Harbin prepares to turn the taps back on”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 November 2022, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     State media said the blast occurred Thursday in Dianjiang, a county in the Chongqing region, killing one worker. Schools were closed and about 6,000 people were evacuated.

   • 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine‎^[3], Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 53:

     In Dianjiang county, Sichuan, a team of eleven people went around torching hundreds of straw huts. 'Destroy Straw Huts in an Evening, Erect Residential Areas in Three Days, Build Communism in a Hundred Days' was the leading slogan.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 墊江／垫江 (zh) (Diànjiāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dianjiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1015, column 2