Taedong
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: tǎʹdôngʹ[1]
Proper noun
Taedong
- The river that flows through Pyongyang in North Korea.
- 2013 November 1, Julian Ryall, “Splashy Kim”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 25 May 2021, Asia:
- One project that has recently been completed is the Munsu Water Park (purportedly shown above in a picture from the KCNA news agency), which was described as a "monumental edifice for the people," on the banks of the Taedong River in Pyongyang.
Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Datong, Tatung
Translations
References
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Taedong River”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1862, column 1: “(tǎʹdôngʹ), Korean Taedong-gang, Jap. Daido-ko, […] Sometimes spelled Taidong.”
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Taedong River”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3082, column 2
- Taedong at Google Ngram Viewer
- “Taedong”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Taedong”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Dutch
Further reading
- Taedong on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
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