Dingxian

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Dingxian

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定縣 /定县 (Dìngxiàn, “Orderly County”).

proper noun Tingsien · Ting-hsien

historical Synonym of Dingzhou, a town in Hebei, China.
Similar: Dingzhou
historical Synonym of Ding County in Hebei, China. From the late Qing on, some local elites tried to find ways to make farmers cleaner, better educated, less superstitious, and more technically proficient in agriculture (Duara 1991; Hayford 1990). One excellent example of this, discussed in Chapter 3, was the eager welcome that elites in Dingxian co
Similar: Ding County in Hebei, China

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@misc{dingxian_2026,
  title = {Dingxian},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dingxian},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}