Litong

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 利通 (Lìtōng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liˈtɔŋ/

Proper noun

Litong

1. A district of Wuzhong, Ningxia, China.
   • 2002, Chih-yu Shih, “Drawing Out She Characteristics in Lishui, Zhejiang”, in Negotiating Ethnicity in China: Citizenship as a Response to the State‎^[1], Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page [2]:

     My own research in China indicates that ex ante logic or modeling is never sufficient in categorizing the diversity emerging in ethnic areas. Each study tour may encounter a new, creative way of adaptation that is beyond the comprehension of strangers. […] The most creative seem to be the Muslims in Litong, Ningxia, where people return to the Muslim spiritual world only after a certain age and allow the state and the mosque to govern different stages of their life (see Chapter 9).

   • 2017, Wei Shi et al., “Pros and Cons of a Non-enclosed Community in Congested Traffic Networks: Braess Paradox-Based Analysis”, in Modeling, Design and Simulation of Systems: 17th Asia Simulation Conference‎^[3], volume I, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 253:

     We select the Wuzhong city Litong district Yuming community as a standard rectangular traffic network example.

   • 2019, Rui Jian, “Sacred and Secular: Cultural Connotations of the Eid Rite of Hui Nationality in Yinchuan, Ningxia”, in 2019 International Conference on Humanities, Cultures, Arts and Design (ICHCAD 2019)‎^[4], →DOI, archived from the original on 13 August 2021, page 310:

     Located in the north of Ningxia, Yinchuan borders the Shizuishan city in the north and the Litong District of Wuzhong City in the south.

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

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 利通

  Mandarin: 利通 (zh) (Lìtōng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• lingot, tiglon, loting, toling