Antung

See also: antung

English

Alternative forms

• An-tung (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Postal Map romanization of Mandarin 安東／安东 (Āndōng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑnˈtʊŋ/

Proper noun

Antung

1. (historical) Former name of Dandong.
   • 1895 May, John Ross, “Manchuria”, in The Scottish Geographical Magazine‎^[1], volume XI, number V, Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Geographical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 220–221:

     The Yalu is mainly useful in floating down immense rafts of wood, which find their way from the town of Antung, at the mouth of the river, to the port of Newchwang, and to Chefoo and Tientsin for the provinces of Shantung and Chihli.

   • 1904, Frederick Palmer, With Kuroki In Manchuria‎^[2], 2nd edition, London: Methuen & Co., →OCLC, page 82:

     At the water front of Antung itself the river is so deep that a disembarkation of infantry would actually have to be made in bodies on shore instead of in the shallows with deployment at a distance. In short, the Russians seemed to have been mesmerized by Antung.

   • 1915, Robert P. Porter, Japan, the New World-power‎^[3], Oxford University Press, page 466:

     The reconstruction of the Tokyo-Shimonoseki section is of importance and ought to be done, not only because it forms a great artery of Japan, but also because it is the line which, when the Mukden-Antung standard-gauge railway is completed next November, will form part of the world’s railway highway, conveying passengers via Chosen and South Manchuria, with only 10 hours’ sea transportation, northward (Shimonoseki to Fusan) to Harbin, where the Siberian Railway is reached and the railway journey may be continued to Europe. Along this route the mails are now carried over the 2½ feet gauge mountain railway between Antung and Mukden, and thence to Harbin.

   • 1922, South Manchuria Railway, Manchuria: Land of Opportunities‎^[4], New York: Thomas F. Logan, page 46:

     Many sawmills are now in operation at Antung, at the mouth of the Yalu, and at Kirin on the Sungari River.

   • 1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 24, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope‎^[5], volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 374:

     MacArthur had ordered a bombing mission to take out the bridge across the Yalu River from Sinuiju (Korea) to Antung (Manchuria). Ninety B-29's were scheduled to take off at one o'clock Washington time to take part in this mission. Lovett had told Acheson that from an operational standpoint he doubted whether the results to be achieved would be important enough to outweigh the danger of bombing Antung or other points on the Manchurian side of the river.

   • 1972, Jim Yoshida, Bill Hosokawa, The Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida‎^[6], New York: William & Company, Inc., page 78:

     The next stop after Seoul was Pyongyang, which the Japanese called Heijo, and suddenly we were into the increasingly more rugged mountains of northern Korea. Finally, at Antung, we crossed the ice-choked Yalu River on a long steel bridge into the vast, flat, brown valleys of Manchuria.

   • 2022 December 5, Robert Neff, “How the great Jemulpo Fire of 1907 started”, in The Korea Times‎^[7], archived from the original on 05 December 2022‎^[8]:

     She decided to leave Korea and go to China, to Antung (modern Dandong), and stay at another uncle's house. […]
     According to Tsuneno, she was at her friend's home for about forty minutes chatting and trying to borrow part of the fare to Antung when she suddenly heard fire alarms nearby.

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

Further reading

• “Antung, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Antung”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• tangun