Liaodong

English

Alternative forms

• Liaotung
• Leaotung

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 遼東 / 辽东 (Liáodōng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: lyouʹdo͝ongʹ

Proper noun

Liaodong

1. (historical) A former province in northeast China (from 1949 to 1954).
   • 1993 [1950 November], “Appendix”, in Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War (Studies in International Security and Arms Control)‎^[3], Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, translation of "Fight for the Consolidation and Development of the Chinese People's Victory", China Monthly Review, November 1950, p. 104, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 274:

     The United States deliberately concocted the assault of the Syngman Rhee gang against the Korean Democratic People’s Republic in order to expand its aggression in the East and then, on the pretext of the situation in Korea, dispatched its naval and air forces to invade the Taiwan Province of China; [and] announced that the so-called problem of Taiwan’s status should be solved by the American-controlled United Nations. Moreover, time after time, it sent its air force, which is invading Korea, to intrude into the air over the Liaodong Province of China, strafing and bombing; and sent its naval forces, which are invading Korea, to bombard Chinese merchant ships on the high seas.

2. A region of Liaoning, China.

   Meronyms: Liaoyang, Shenyang

   • 2009 June 22, “Oil slicks poisoning China's Bohai Sea - official”, in Emma Graham-Harrison, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 14 May 2022, Oil Report:

     Bohai Sea is on the northeastern coast of China, bounded by Liaodong and Shandong Peninsulas, so pollution there is slow to wash out to the ocean, exacerbating damage to local marine life.

Translations

region

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遼東 / 辽东 (zh) (Liáodōng)

• French: Liaodong m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Manchu: ᠯᡳᠶᠣᠣᡩᡠᠩ (liyoodung)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Liaodong, Gulf of”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1729, column 2

French

Alternative forms

• Léaotung (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hanyu Pinyin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lja.ɔ.dɔ̃/

Proper noun

le Liaodong m

1. (historical) Liaodong (former province in northeast China).
2. Liaodong (a region of Liaoning, China).

   Holonym: Liaoning

   Meronyms: Liaoyang, Shenyang