Liaodong
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 遼東／辽东 (Liáodōng).
Pronunciation
- enPR: lyouʹdo͝ongʹ[2]
Proper noun
Liaodong
- (historical) A former province in northeast China (from 1949 to 1954).
- A region of Liaoning, China.
- 2009 June 22, “Oil slicks poisoning China's Bohai Sea - official”, in Emma Graham-Harrison, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 May 2022, Oil Report:
- Bohai Sea is on the northeastern coast of China, bounded by Liaodong and Shandong Peninsulas, so pollution there is slow to wash out to the ocean, exacerbating damage to local marine life.
Translations
References
- “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 481: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Liao-tung (Liaodong) 遼東”
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Liaotung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1049, column 1
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Liaodong, Gulf of”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1729, column 2
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