Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tongde

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Tong-de
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A county of Hainan, Qinghai, China.

Example Sentences

"Remarkably, the film tapes were successfully smuggled out of China, apparently just days before Dhondup Wangchen and Golog Jigme, his monk cameraman, were picked up by the police on March 26, Gyaljong Tsetrin says. They were on their way to Tongde county in Qinghai province, a Tibetan area in the northwest of the country, when they were detained. Just weeks earlier, violent anti-Chinese riots had broken out in Lhasa and spread across Tibetan areas in the west of China."
"On Friday, at least 1,000 people protested at a government building in Tongde County, not far from Tongren.[…] At Friday’s demonstration in Tongde County, marchers demanded the release of 50 monks seized a day earlier by the police after they raised a Tibetan flag and banners extolling the Dalai Lama."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 同德.

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 同德

Questions

What does tongde mean?: A county of Hainan, Qinghai, China.
Where does tongde come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 同德.

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