Dunhuang

See also: Dūnhuáng

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Alternative forms

• (historical, obsolete): Tunhwang
• Tun-huang, Tunhuang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin^[1] romanization of the Mandarin 敦煌 (Dūnhuáng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʊnˈhwæŋ/, /dʊnˈhwɑŋ/
• enPR: do͝onʹhwängʹ^[2]

Proper noun

Dunhuang

1. A county-level city of Jiuquan, Gansu, China.

Derived terms

• Dunhuangology, Dunhuang studies

Translations

county-level city in western China

Chinese: Cantonese: 敦煌 (deon1 wong4) Mandarin: 敦煌 (zh) (Dūnhuáng) French: Dunhuang, Touen-houang Indonesian: Dunhuang Japanese: 敦煌 (とんこう, tonkō) Kazakh: Дұнхуаң (Dūnxuañ) Korean: 둔황 (dunhwang) Thai: ตุนหวง Vietnamese: Đôn Hoàng

References

1. ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China‎^[1], Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 485: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Tun-huang (Dunhuang) 敦煌”
2. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tunhwang or Tun-huang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[2], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1961, column 1

Further reading

• “Dunhuang, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Dunhuang”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dunhuang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1074, columns 1, 2