Dingbian

English

Alternative forms

• Ting-pien (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 定邊／定边 (Dìngbiān).

Proper noun

Dingbian

1. A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1968, Lyman P. Van Slyke, editor, The Chinese Communist Movement: A Report of the United States War Department, July 1945‎^[1], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 152:

     Other motor roads include one running northwestward from Yenan via Ching-pien to the salt-producing area in the vicinity of Ting-pien. Another runs from Ting-pien southeast to Ch’ing-yang. A fourth road reportedly runs from Ch’ing-chien on the Yenan-Mi-chih road to Ching-pien on the Yenan-Ting-pien road.]

   • [1976 August, “Land Improvement in China”, in China Reconstructs‎^[2], volume XXV, number 8, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29, column 2:

     Soil improvement often involves the movement of large quantities of earth, but the Chinese peasants face this task with a high degree of enthusiasm for socialism. A good example is the way the Hsiaotantzu brigade in Tingpien county, Shensi province, set out to change their sandy soil.]

   • 1992, Xiaoping Deng, Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping‎^[3], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 331:

     In April 1942 the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government established a Hui nationality autonomous area consisting of the fourth and fifth districts of Dingbian County and two natural villages of Chengguan Town.

   • 2008 December 2, Yu Le, “Carbon monoxide kills 11 Chinese schoolgirls”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 05 November 2023, WORLD NEWS‎^[5]:

     Twelve girls were poisoned on Monday night at their school in Dingbian county of Shaanxi province, Xinhua news agency reported. The sole survivor was in serious condition, it added.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 定邊／定边 (zh) (Dìngbiān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dingbian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1022, column 2