Nantong

See also: nántóng and Nántōng

English

Alternative forms

• Nan-t'ung (Wade–Giles)
• Nantung

Etymology

From Mandarin 南通 (Nántōng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: nänʹto͝ongʹ

Proper noun

Nantong

1. A prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, China.
   • 2019 December 25, Lusha Zhang, Ryan Woo, “China's Nantong city imposes five-year ban on resale of cheap homes to curb speculation”, in Kenneth Maxwell, editor, Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 December 2019, Business News‎^[2]:

     The eastern Chinese city of Nantong, with a population of more than 7 million, has introduced a new rule to ban near-term resale of certain cheap homes in the latest step by authorities in the country to curb property market speculation.
     On Wednesday the government of Nantong, near Shanghai and a number of other port cities, said property buyers who have bought new homes at prices much lower than the market average are not allowed to resell their properties for five years.

Translations

a city in China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南通 (zh) (Nántōng)

• Hungarian: Nantung (hu)
• Japanese: 南通 (なんつう, Nantsū)
• Korean: 난퉁 (Nantung)
• Russian: Наньту́н m (Nanʹtún)
• Thai: หนานทง (năa ná-tong)
• Vietnamese: Nam Thông

Further reading

• Nantong, Nan-t'ung, Nan-tung, Nantung at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Nantong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2117, column 3

Anagrams

• Tongnan