丹东 (Dāndōng): Dandong (city in Liaoning provi…

Meanings

1 Dandong (city in Liaoning province, on the China-North Korea border)

Characters

丹

Examples

丹东在鸭绿江边，对岸就是朝鲜。

Dāndōng zài Yālùjiāng biān, duì'àn jiùshì Cháoxiǎn.

Dandong sits on the Yalu River; just across the bank is North Korea.

我们坐火车从沈阳去丹东。

Wǒmen zuò huǒchē cóng Shěnyáng qù Dāndōng.

We took the train from Shenyang to Dandong.

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culture

Prefecture-level city in Liaoning, China's largest border city. Sits on the Yalu River 鸭绿江 facing North Korea's Sinuiju 新义州 — the bombed-out Korean War bridge 鸭绿江断桥 is its most famous landmark. Long the staging point for travel and trade across the DPRK border.

history

The city was renamed 丹东 ('red east') in 1965 from 安东 (Āndōng, 'pacified east') as part of a wave of Cultural-Revolution-era renamings that swapped imperial-sounding characters for politically charged ones.