Dandong

See also: Dāndōng

English

Alternative forms

• Tan-tung, Tantung (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 丹東／丹东 (Dāndōng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdænˈdɔŋ/, /ˈdɑn(ˈ)dʊŋ/, enPR: dänʹdo͝ongʹ

Proper noun

Dandong

1. A prefecture-level city in Liaoning, China, across the Yalu River from Sinuiju, North Pyongan, North Korea.
   • 2008, Robert Willoughby, “Mt Paektu”, in North Korea (Bradt Travel Guides)‎^[1], 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 201:

     Another 40km south of Samjiyon is the Amnok riverbank city of Hyesan, opposite China, worth visiting for another China/DPRK comparison that’s also a favourite for visitors to Dandong (see page 205).

   • 2013 September 6, Joon Ho Kim, Richard Finney, “North Korea Plans Tourist, Economic Zones to Lure Foreign Cash”, in Doeun Han, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[2], archived from the original on 13 March 2015‎^[3]:

     The project is expected to see the revival of a long-stalled plan to create a special economic zone at Sinuiju, a North Korean city in North Pyeongan province directly across the Yalu River from the Chinese city of Dandong.

   • 2015 May 3, Tong-Hyung Kim, “N. Korea arrests U.S. students for illegal entry”, in USA Today‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2015‎^[5]:

     North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said Saturday that Joo was arrested on April 22 after trying to illegally enter North Korea by crossing the Amnok River from the Chinese border town of Dandong.

   • 2017 May 12, Jane Perlez, Yufan Huang, Paul Mozur, “How North Korea Managed to Defy Years of Sanctions”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 May 2017, Asia Pacific‎^[7]:

     Positioned near the mouth of the Yalu River, Dandong is China’s largest border town, and much of North Korea’s trade with the world flows across its old bridges or through its deepwater port.

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

Synonyms

• (historical) Andong, An-tung, Antung

Translations

prefecture-level city of Liaoning, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 丹東／丹东 (daan¹ dung¹)

  Mandarin: 丹東／丹东 (zh) (Dāndōng)

Further reading

• “Dandong”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Dandong, Tan-tung, Tantung at Google Ngram Viewer
• “Dandong, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Dandong”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Dandong”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Dandong” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dandong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 962, columns 1, 2