Tungkun

English
Map including TUNG-KUAN (TUNGKUN) 東莞 (AMS, 1954) →OCLC (bottom right)

Etymology

From Cantonese 東莞／东莞 (dung1 gun2).

Proper noun

Tungkun

  1. Dated form of Dongguan.
    • 1906, John Jackson, Lepers, Thirty-one Years' Work Among Them‎, →OCLC, page 365:
      The city of Tungkun lies not far from Canton, and outside its walls is one of the innumerable colonies of lepers to be found in that vast Empire.
    • 1948, American Mission to Lepers, China's Leprosy‎, →OCLC, page 13:
      VILLAGE AT TUNGKUN
      What can be done has already been demonstrated to a great extent at the German Rhenish Mission at Tungkun, forty miles outside Canton.[...]There is a strong Christian program at Tungkun, a happy spirit of fellowship and community cooperation.
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