tungtingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Tungting

1. Alternative form of Dongding
   • 1843 August, “Sailing directions to accompany seven charts of the coast of China, between Amoy bay, and the Yángtsz’ kiáng.”, in The Chinese Repository‎, volume XII, number 8, Canton, →OCLC, page 401:

     ON approaching Amoy, (Hiámun ching, 夏門城,) from the southward, Chapel island, called by the Chinese Tungting 東椗 and situated in lat. 24° 10.'3 N., and long. 118° 13.'5 E., or 9.44 E. of the S.W. point of Kúláng seu 鼓浪嶼, may been seen from four to five leagues : it has an even surface, is about 200 feet high, and its circumference three cables. It is perforated at its southeast extreme, which shows when it bears E.N.E. or W.S.W.

   • 1955, John C. Caldwell, chapter 1, in Still the Rice Grows Green‎, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9:

     Suddenly the memories of a quarter of a century came flooding back. Tungting Island! That was Bobbie's lighthouse I saw perched high on the cliffs. I remembered too, the briefing in the guerrilla general's headquarters a few days earlier, remembered that Tungting is the most southerly, the smallest, the most exposed of all Free China's holdings.

   • 1958 September 19, “The Communist Bloc”, in Central Intelligence Bulletin‎, CIA, page 1:

     A Nationalist convoy consisting of one LSM and two patrol craft, en route to Tungting, a few miles south of Kinmen, reported early in the afternoon that one of the patrol craft had been damaged by Communist artillery fire and was "helpless.” […]
     Following the strafing incident, the Nationalist joint operations center reported that four Communist motor torpedo boats were attacking three Nationalist patrol vessels in the vicinity of Tungting and that the Nationalist vessels were also under attack by Communist artillery.

   • 1959, The Defense of Quemoy and the Free World‎, Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League, →OCLC, pages 19–20:

     No sooner had the Communist guns fell silent, a fleet of 4 Communist gunboats and 6 landing craft was seen approaching the Nationalist-held tiny islet Tungting southwest of Kinmen. […]
     If Tungting were seized by the Communists, it could mean a stab in the back of Kinmen.
     A Nationalist patrolling fleet rushed to Tungting and engaged […]

   • 1996 March 11 [1996 March 10], “Taiwan: Major General Appointed To Command Frontline Island”, in Daily Report: China‎, numbers 96-048, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 98–99‎:

     In light of the Chinese Communists’ announcement that live-fire naval and air exercises will be conducted in waters southwest of Kinmen, Kinmen Garrison Command has appointed Major (Chin Shih-shih), deputy divisional commander, to assume command at the (Tungting) Island, an island closest to the exercise zone. […]
     It was learned that by appointing a deputy divisional commander to assume command in (Tungting), the military wants to get a grasp of the local situation and strengthen combat preparations and at the same time help calm the soldiers’ moral and boost their spirits. […]
     (Tungting) island is an importamt point in maritime transportation along the Chinese mainland.

   • 2003 October 4, Brian Hsu, “Coast guard not ready to take over Kinmen islands”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2003, Taiwan News, page 4‎:

     The six islands in the Kinmen group include Tatan, Erhtan, Menghuyu, Tungting, Peiting and Shihyu, which are scheduled to be demilitarized and opened for tourism early next year.

   • 2016 April 25, “Tungting Tao Lighthouse”, in Maritime and Port Bureau‎, archived from the original on 06 August 2020‎:

     Built in 1871, located on top of Tungting Tao, a painted black brick round tower, the first black station in Taiwan region, and the first western style lighthouse. The tower was designed by a British engineer, David Marr Henderson. The lighthouse is an important landmark and tourist area in Tungting Tao.

   • 2020 February 15, “Taiwan 2019 Lighthouse Stamps”, in Lighthouse Stamp Society‎, archived from the original on 18 February 2020‎:

     On 20 Nov 2019 Chunghwa Post followed up on it’s 2018 lighthouse stamp issue with 4 new lighthouse stamps in the same format. The first stamp features the 1900 built Keelung Lighthouse which is located at the west side of the entrance to Keelung Harbor. Next is Tungting Tao Lighthouse which is located on a small island in the Taiwan Strait near mainland China.

   • (Can we date this quote?), “Marine Lighthouse Section”, in 海關博物館 [Customs Museum]‎, archived from the original on 17 October 2021‎:

     In Taiwan, the first five lighthouses were set up at Yuwen Tao, Eluan Pi, Kaohsiung, Anping, and Tamsui by Ching administration. In Kinman, the Tungting Tao and Peiting Tao, lighthouses were constructed.

   • 2023 February, Andrew Chubb, “Taiwan Strait Crises: Island Seizure Contingencies”, in Asia Society‎, archived from the original on 2023-04-02‎:

     The PLA attempted amphibious operations to seize the main Kinmen Island in 1949, and nearby Tungting (Dongding) Island in 1958, but was repelled by ROC defensive emplacements.

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