Ting-yüan

English

Map including Ting-yüan (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 定遠／定远 (Dìngyuǎn), Wade–Giles romanization: Ting⁴-yüan³.

Proper noun

Ting-yüan

1. Alternative form of Dingyuan
   • 1973, Yu-wen Jen, “Warfare in the Yangtze Valley (1856-1859)”, in The Taiping Revolutionary Movement‎^[1], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 613:

     During the summer, while Ch’en attacked Lai-an and Ch’u-chou, Wu left Lu-chou for an attack on Ting-yüan with the assistance of Nien chief Kung Te-shu.

     Ting-yüan 定遠 (Anhwei), 339, 345-46

   • 1980, Elizabeth J. Perry, “Protectors Turn Rebels: The Case of the Red Spears”, in Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945‎^[2], Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 169:

     For example, in 1928, after a Red Spear force succeeded in routing bandits from Anhwei’s Hsü-i and Ting-yüan counties, the brigands regrouped in nearby Hsüchou.

   • 1994 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Chʻien, edited by William Nienhauser, The Grand Scribe's Records‎^[3], volume 1, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 206:

     When he reached Yin-ling 陰陵,²⁶⁵ he lost his way and asked an old farmer.[...]
     ²⁶⁵ A county northwest of modern Ting-yüan 定遠 County in Anhwei (Wang Li-ch'i, 7:182n.) about 25 miles east of modern Huai-nan 淮南 City (see also T'an Ch'i-hsiang, 2:19).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ting-yüan.

Translations

Dingyuan — see Dingyuan

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tingyüan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1916, column 2

Anagrams

• auntying