Weidong

See also: wēidòng and wéidòng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 衛東／卫东.

Proper noun

Weidong

1. A district of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
   • 2010 June 21, Huang Yan, Lucy Hornby, “Coal mine explosives blast kills 46 in China”, in Sugita Katyal, editor, Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on September 27, 2024:

     The 72 miners were trapped after stored explosives blew up at the Xingdong No.2 Mine in Weidong district of Pingdingshan in Henan province, it said.

   • 2017 November, Pei-yang Wang, Feng You-li, “Geological Hazards in Pingdingshan Coal Mine District and Controlling Countermeasures”, in International Journal of Scientific and Technical Research in Engineering‎^[2], volume 2, number 11, →ISSN, page 23:

     Eight mines of Pingdingshan is China's own design and construction of the first large-scale mine, administrative area under the Weidong District, Pingdingshan City .

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衛東／卫东 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• wendigo, widgeon