Teng
name ·1 syllable ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A surname from Hokkien.
- 2 A surname from Mandarin.
"The source said Teng Hsiao-ping, when he visited Kwangchow early this year, ordered the arrest of the younger Wang to enforce the new purification campaign."
- 3 Ellipsis of Teng County, former name of Tengzhou: a county-level city of Zaozhuang, Shandong, China. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"To top it off, the central branch in Jining loudly endorsed the experience of Teng County by declaring, at the region’s meeting of county bank managers and agricultural credit co-operative directors, “learn from Teng County; continue to mine the potential; go all out in savings accounts. Don’t be put off by this kind or that kind of interference!”"
- 4 A county of Wuzhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
"The production command group of Kwangsi Regional Revolutionary Committee recently held in Teng County an on-the-spot symposium on rape production."
Example
More examples"'Teng' and 'cheng' are rhyming words."
Etymology
Romanization of Hokkien 鄧／邓 (Tēng). Doublet of Dinh.
From Mandarin 鄧 /邓 (Dèng), Wade–Giles romanization: Têng⁴. Doublet of Dinh.
From Mandarin 藤 (Téng).
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