# Datong

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #87,188

## Definitions
1. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
2. A Hui and Tu autonomous county in Xining, Qinghai, China.
3. A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
4. A mountain indigenous township in Yilan County, Taiwan.
5. Synonym of Taedong (North Korea): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

## Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大同 (Dàtóng).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/datong
