"Tumen" meaning in All languages combined

See Tumen on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

enPR: to͞oʹmǔnʹ Etymology: From Mandarin 圖們/图们 (Túmén). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn|-}} Mandarin, {{zh-l|圖們|tr=Túmén}} 圖們/图们 (Túmén) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Tumen
  1. A river forming part of the border between Jilin, China and North Korea, and the border between Rasŏn, North Korea and Khasansky district, Primorsky Krai, Russia. Categories (place): Places in China, Places in Jilin, Rivers in China, Rivers in Jilin, Places in North Korea, Places in Primorsky Krai, Places in Russia, Rivers in North Korea Translations (river): 圖們 (Chinese Mandarin), 图们 (Túmén) (Chinese Mandarin), 豆満江 (Toman-kō) (Japanese), 두만강 (duman'gang) (Korean), 되강 (doegang) [archaic] (Korean), Туманная (Tumannaja) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-Tumen-en-name-hVQ9flYQ Disambiguation of Places in North Korea: 90 10 Disambiguation of Places in Primorsky Krai: 72 28 Disambiguation of Places in Russia: 52 48 Disambiguation of Rivers in North Korea: 83 17 Disambiguation of 'river': 100 0
  2. A county-level city in Yanbian, Jilin, China Categories (place): Cities in Jilin, Places in China, Places in Jilin, Places in Russia Synonyms: T'u-men (alt: Wade–Giles) Related terms: Antu
    Sense id: en-Tumen-en-name-UEivVexw Disambiguation of Places in Russia: 52 48 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English quotations with omitted translation Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 66 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 19 81 Disambiguation of English quotations with omitted translation: 34 66
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (from Korean): Tuman
Disambiguation of 'from Korean': 48 52

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.