English
Tunhwang
Tunhwang comes from Mandarin 敦煌.
- Mandarinmodern敦煌Dūnhuáng
- Englishearliest quotation 1953Tunhwang
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Mandarinmodern敦煌Dūnhuáng
- Englishearliest quotation 1953Tunhwang
Earliest quotation: 1953, Richard J. Wash, The Real China: “AFTER THE thirty days' crossing of the great desert…”
Every English word from Mandarin 敦煌
Today it means
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Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 敦煌 / Tunhwang