Ledong

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 樂東 / 乐东 (Lèdōng).

Proper noun

Ledong

1. A Li autonomous county in Hainan, China.
   • 2019 March 12, “China says 2 pilots killed in crash of navy jet”, in AP News‎^[1], sourced from BEIJING (AP), archived from the original on January 14, 2024‎^[2]:

     The crash took place in Ledong county in the mountainous and heavily forested tropical province and the cause was under investigation, the navy said on its official Twitter-like Weibo microblog.

Translations

Li autonomous county

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 樂東 / 乐东 (lok⁶ dung¹)

  Mandarin: 樂東 / 乐东 (zh) (Lèdōng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Loktung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1075, column 3
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Ledong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1707, column 1