See Teng in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From Mandarin 藤 (Téng).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Teng",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Counties and county-level cities of Guangxi, China",
"en:Places in China",
"en:Places in Guangxi, China"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
90,
94
]
],
"ref": "1972 April 13 [1972 April 6], “Kwangsi Symposium Discusses Production of Rape Plant”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 73, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Nanning Kwangsi Regional Service, translation of original in Cantonese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page D 4:",
"text": "The production command group of Kwangsi Regional Revolutionary Committee recently held in Teng County an on-the-spot symposium on rape production.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
94,
98
]
],
"ref": "2022 March 23, Martin Quin Pollard, Thomas Suen, Tony Munroe, “At China plane crash site, relatives wait in grim vigil”, in Alexandra Hudson, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2022, China:",
"text": "Dozens of family members congregated at the heavily-secured checkpoint leading to the site in Teng county in southern China's Guangxi region in pairs or small groups on Wednesday.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A county of Wuzhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China."
],
"links": [
[
"county",
"county"
],
[
"Wuzhou",
"Wuzhou#English"
],
[
"Guangxi",
"Guangxi#English"
],
[
"China",
"China#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "tŭng"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "Téng",
"sense": "county",
"word": "藤"
}
],
"word": "Teng"
}
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