How do you pronounce liaodong?

The recorded pronunciation is /liˌaʊˈdʊŋ/.

liaodong

/liˌaʊˈdʊŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English

Syllables: Liao-dong
IPA: /liˌaʊˈdʊŋ/

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Meaning

name

A former province in northeast China (from 1949 to 1954).

name

A region of Liaoning, China.

Example Sentences

"The United States deliberately concocted the assault of the Syngman Rhee gang against the Korean Democratic People’s Republic in order to expand its aggression in the East and then, on the pretext of the situation in Korea, dispatched its naval and air forces to invade the Taiwan Province of China; [and] announced that the so-called problem of Taiwan’s status should be solved by the American-controlled United Nations. Moreover, time after time, it sent its air force, which is invading Korea, to intrude into the air over the Liaodong Province of China, strafing and bombing; and sent its naval forces, which are invading Korea, to bombard Chinese merchant ships on the high seas."
"Another unit, situated in the strategic coastal city of Dairen, near Port Arthur in Liaodong Province, was called the South Manchurian Railway Sanitary Institute; large quantities of vaccines were produced there."
"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."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 遼東 /辽东 (Liáodōng).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 遼東

Inflected Forms

Liaotung (alternative) Liao-tung (alternative) Leaotung (alternative, obsolete) Lyautung (alternative, obsolete) Leotung (alternative, obsolete) Leaotum (alternative, obsolete)