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• Daedong
• Taidong
• Taedonggang

語源

Borrowed from Korean 대동강(大同江) (Daedonggang).

発音

• enPR: tǎʹdôngʹ

固有名詞

Taedong

1. The river that flows through Pyongyang in North Korea.
   • 2010 October 29, Mark McDonald, “After 6 Decades of Separation in Korea, a Meeting”, in The New York Times‎, sourced from SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on January 25, 2023, Asia Pacific‎:

     Mr. Oh, who now lives in Seoul, knows that his parents have died — they would have been over 100 by now — but he found out only this month that his two sisters were alive in North Korea. And his kid brother, the little rascal he taught to swim in the Taedong River in Pyongyang, is also alive.

   • 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.

   • 2015 June 12, James Pearson, “Popular Pyongyang tourist spot the Koryo Hotel catches fire”, in Andrew Hay, Paul Tait, editors, Reuters‎, sourced from SEOUL (Reuters), archived from the original on July 29, 2024, World:

     A section of the Koryo Hotel, one of the oldest and best known hotels in Pyongyang, caught fire on Thursday, sources who witnessed the fire in the North Korean capital told Reuters.
     Images obtained by Reuters showed plumes of black smoke billowing from the bridge connecting the two 43-storey towers of the 143-metre (469-feet) structure, which lies a short distance from Pyongyang's bustling train station and the Taedong river that cuts through the city.

   • 2017 August 3, “Shellfish, fire and Party praise: beach breaks, North Korea style”, in France 24‎, sourced from Nampho (North Korea) (AFP), archived from the original on November 11, 2020, Live news‎:

     The "petrol clams" are fleshy and flavourful -- the secret to avoiding a hydrocarbon taste is not to inhale while slipping them into the mouth -- and a speciality of the West Sea Barrage beach at Nampho, southwest of Pyongyang.
     The sandy beach lies at the far end of the eight-kilometre barrier across the Taedong river mouth -- ostensibly built for flood control, but which also blocks access to Pyongyang, a few dozen kilometres upriver, for any invading navy.

   • 2022 August 9, Kim Tong-hyung, “South Korean rain turns roads into rivers, leaves 9 dead”, in AP News‎, sourced from SEOUL, South Korea (AP), archived from the original on August 09, 2022‎:

     Rainstorms also pounded North Korea, where authorities issued heavy rain warnings for the southern and western parts of the country. North Korea’s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper described the rain as potentially disastrous and called for measures to protect farmland and prevent flooding on the Taedong River, which flows through the capital, Pyongyang.

同意語

• (from Japanese) Daido
• (from Mandarin Chinese) Datong, Tatung

参照

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: “Sometimes spelled Taidong.”
• Taedong at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Taedong”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Taedong”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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