Tonkin

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A surname transferred from the given name.
  2. Synonym of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. archaic
  3. A former kingdom in northern Vietnam. historical
  4. A former protectorate in northern Vietnam, a colony of France. historical
  5. Ellipsis of the Gulf of Tonkin: a gulf in northern Vietnam. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  6. Ellipsis of Gulf of Tonkin incident, a 1964 event used to increase US involvement in the Vietnamese Civil War. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis

词形变化

Tonkins plural Tonquin alternative Tong-King alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
Gulf of Tonkin Tonkinese Tonkin pit viper Tonkin toad

词源

词源 1
From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Thomas.
词源 2
From French Tonkin, from Vietnamese Đông Kinh (“Hanoi; its former kingdom”), from đông (“east, eastern”) + kinh (“capital”), from Middle Chinese 東京 (tuwng kjaeng), q.v.
Cognate, through Middle Chinese, of Tokyo.
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