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東北
简 东北 · 繁 東北Characters in this entry
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Mandarin tones
1–3 · dong1 bei3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
dung1 bak1
Cantonese word readings for 東北. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- northeast
name
- (～地區) Northeast China (a region of China; consisting of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang, and sometimes the northeast part of Inner Mongolia)
- (～大行政區, ～區) (historical) Northeast China (a former greater administrative region of China from 1949 to 1954, consisting of Liaodong, Liaoxi, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Songjiang, Rehe and Suiyuan, Shenyang, Lüda, Fushun, Anshan and Benxi)
- (historical) Manchuria
- (～地方) Tōhoku (a region of Japan)
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