Dunhua

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 敦化 (Dūnhuà).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʊnˈhwæŋ/, /dʊnˈhwɑŋ/
  • enPR: do͝onʹhwäʹ[1]

Proper noun

Dunhua

  1. A county-level city of Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China.
    • 2019 December 3, HYUNG-JIN KIM, “Half-North Korean, half-Chinese kids struggle in South Korea”, in AP News‎[2], sourced from UIJEONGBU, South Korea (AP), archived from the original on 09 October 2023‎[3]:
      The 20-year-old speaks only a little Korean and has no South Korean friends. She has yet to travel alone beyond Seoul and often spends time chatting online with her friends back in China.
      Her mother fled their home in Dunhua city in northeastern China in early 2017 after seeing a fellow North Korean woman in their village being arrested and sent back to North Korea.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tunhwa or Tun-hua”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1961, column 1
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