Dongguan

See also: Dōngguǎn

English

Alternative forms

• Tungkuan, Tung-kuan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東莞 / 东莞 (Dōngguǎn).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdʊŋˈɡwɑn/

Proper noun

Dongguan

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, in southeastern China.
   • [1970, Union Research Service‎^[1], volume 59, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:

     In Tungkuan County, the Houchieh Brigade under Houchieh Commune, with the assistance of the Mao Tsetung Thought propaganda team, made […]]

   • 2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China‎^[2], New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:

     Dongguan was different. It rose by no one’s decree; it simply grew. While Shenzhen aspired to advanced technology and innovation, Dongguan took what it could get, which meant low-tech factories from Hong Kong and Taiwan that made clothing, toys, and shoes.

   • 2014 March 6, Edward Wong, “Red Lights Dim in China’s Sin City”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 March 2014, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     China is undergoing the harshest anti-vice campaign the government has mounted in years, and the crackdown is taking a toll on the economy of Dongguan, a southern city of more than eight million people. It is a manufacturing center for the export business and a Mecca for migrant workers, but it is also the nation’s sin city. Now, the red-light industry here is blushing a deep pink.

   • 2015 April 24, Euan McKirdy, “What a send-off: China's funeral strippers told to cover up”, in CNN‎^[5], archived from the original on 24 April 2015:

     In February 2014, a massive crackdown on prostitution in the southern manufacturing city of Dongguan, dubbed "Sin City" for its huge vice industry, raided 2,000 establishments and detained more than 900 people.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dongguan.

Synonyms

• (obsolete, from Cantonese) Tungkun, Tungkoon

Translations

a city of China

• Arabic: دُونْغْقْوَان m (dunḡqwān), دُونْغْغْوَان m (dunḡḡwān)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 東莞 / 东莞 (dung¹ gun²)

  Mandarin: 東莞 / 东莞 (zh) (Dōngguǎn)

• Hungarian: Tungkuan (hu)
• Japanese: 東莞 (とうかん, Tōkan), ドングァン (Dongwan)
• Korean: 둥완 (dung'wan)
• Macedonian: Дунгуа́н m (Dunguán)
• Russian: Дунгуа́нь m (Dunguánʹ)
• Vietnamese: Đông Hoản

Further reading

• “Dongguan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Dongguan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dongguan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1043, column 3