Dongcheng

English

Alternative forms

• Tungcheng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東城 / 东城 (Dōngchéng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʊŋˈt͡ʃʌŋ/

Proper noun

Dongcheng

1. A district of Beijing, China.
   • 1981, Laurence J.C. Ma, “Urban Housing Supply in the People's Republic of China”, in Urban Development in Modern China‎^[1], Boulder, CO: Westview Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 236:

     In Beijing’s Dongcheng District where 560,000 residents live, some 936 neighborhood stores, restaurants, health clinics, nurseries, and cultural and educational centers have been established.

   • 2009 January 2, Gan Tian, “Learning Peking-opera pieces”, in Beijing Today‎^[2], number 396, →OCLC, page 11:

     Dongcheng Wenhuaguan, the culture museum in Dongcheng, acting like an events organizer, also has a similar group that meets every Saturday.

   • 2015, Stephen Brewer, John Rambow, Caroline Trefler, editors, Fodor's Beijing‎^[3], 5th edition, Fodor's, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 50:

     The soul of old Beijing lives on throughout Dongcheng District, where you'll find the city’s top historic sites and idyllic hutong worth getting lost in.

   • 2022 May 1, “Beijing tourist sites empty in Covid-stalked public holiday”, in France 24‎^[4], archived from the original on 01 May 2022:

     Beijing so far has reported over 300 cases under the current wave, and authorities on Saturday banned city-wide dining services starting Sunday to May 4 -- an attempt to curb infections during a holiday that is typically an annual peak consumption period.
     "It will have a definite impact on sales," a restaurant employee surnamed An told AFP, as she scanned for customers around Beijing's Dongcheng district -- home to historic attractions like the Forbidden City.

   • 2022 September 3, 愚工 [Yu Kung], “China shuns friendliness of KMT”, in Julian Clegg, transl., Taipei Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 September 2022, Editorials, page 8:

     The KMT’s act of self-humiliation is reminiscent of what happened in 1948, when it was being buffeted by the storm of the Chinese Civil War.
     In January of that year, a group of KMT members established the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (中國國民黨革命委員會), which supported the CCP’s call, as one of its “May Day slogans,” to establish a democratic coalition government.
     In so doing, the committee sent a friendly message to the CCP.
     Today, the committee is a subordinate organization of the CCP, with its headquarters on humble Donghuangchenggen S Street in Beijing’s Dongcheng District (東城).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dongcheng.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 東城 / 东城 (zh) (Dōngchéng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Dongcheng, Tungcheng at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.