Dongying

See also: Dōngyíng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 東營／东营 (Dōngyíng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔŋ.jɪŋ/, /dɒŋ-/

Proper noun

Dongying

1. A prefecture-level city in Shandong, China.
   • [1976, “State Department Cable”, in US State Department‎^[1], page 2:

     2) THIS EQUIPMENT IS CONSIGNED TO THE CHINA PETROLEUM AND GAS EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, PEKING, FOR INSTALLATION AT TUNGYING, SHANTUNG PROVINCE, AND AT HSIENHSIANG, HONAN PROVINCE, WITH TWO SYSTEMS AT EACH LOCATION OPERATING INDEPENDENTLY OF EACH OTHER (I.E. UNCONNECTED) FOR USE IN OIL EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT, E.G. WELL-LOGGING AND ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA DERIVED FROM WELL-LOGGING AND PERFORATING EQUIPMENT.]

   • 1985 June 6, “Knottses Going to China”, in Campus Communique‎^[2], volume XIV, number 40, UNCW Development Office, →OCLC, page 3:

     Laura and Michael Knotts, instructors in the English department, have accepted one-year teaching appointments in the People's Republic of China. They will teach American and British Literature, Business and Technical Writing, Composition, and Conversational English at the East China Petroleum Institute in Dongying, Shandong Province.

   • 2015 September 7, Austin Ramzy, “Report on Toll From Shandong Blast Is Called ‘Coldblooded’”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 March 2023‎^[4]:

     The announcement of the revised death toll by the Dongying city government, which administers Lijin County, said that some of the bodies were “blown to pieces” and that family members’ “mood was stable.”

   • 2021 October 21, “CCTV+: Xi inspects ecological conservation work at Yellow River estuary”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on 29 May 2022‎^[6]:

     Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday inspected the ecological conservation work at the estuary of the Yellow River in the city of Dongying during his inspection tour in east China’s Shandong Province.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 東營／东营 (zh) (Dōngyíng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dongying”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1045, column 1