Meaning of Teng | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Hokkien.
2. A surname from Mandarin.
3. Ellipsis of Teng County, former name of Tengzhou: a county-level city of Zaozhuang, Shandong, China.
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4. A county of Wuzhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China.

Examples

“The source said Teng Hsiao-ping, when he visited Kwangchow early this year, ordered the arrest of the younger Wang to enforce the new purification campaign.”

自由中國週報

“In his speech at the mass rally mentioned above, Chiang Tse-min described Teng as a loyal comrade-in-arms of Mao Tse-tung and the most prominent successor and developer of Mao Tse-tung thought. He stressed the way that both Teng and Mao formulated their policies in line with the specific situation in China.”

“Prosecutors said a man surnamed Teng (鄧) admitted to placing a note in the front windshield wiper of a car parked in Kaohsiung’s Linyuan District (林園) in October last year.”

“To top it off, the central branch in Jining loudly endorsed the experience of Teng County by declaring, at the region’s meeting of county bank managers and agricultural credit co-operative directors, “learn from Teng County; continue to mine the potential; go all out in savings accounts. Don’t be put off by this kind or that kind of interference!””

“After his death, Xi Zhong was buried twenty-five li (about twelve kilometres) to the south of Xuecheng in Shandong Province, where people could find his tomb. And where he tested his cart, sixty li (thirty kilometres) from Teng County in Shandong Province, it is said that for years after his death, people could still see the wheel tracks.”

The World of Chinese Myths

“The production command group of Kwangsi Regional Revolutionary Committee recently held in Teng County an on-the-spot symposium on rape production.”

“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.”

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