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Anbu

Syllables: An·bu

Anbu proper noun: a town in Chao'an district, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.

Proper noun

Anbu

  1. A town in Chao'an district, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.
    • Along with the new hospital, dispensaries were opened at Ampow (菴埠) and Tat-hau-pow (達濠埠), 9 miles distant from the city; each one was visited every alternate week. They were kept open until 1872; the dispensary at Tat-hau-pow was again started in 1875.[1936, K. Chimin Wong [王吉民], Wu Lien-teh [伍連德], “Period 1866-1879. Adoption of new methods for medical work”, in History of Chinese Medicine: Being a Chronicle of Medical Happenings in China from...
    • Chen Bo'er, originally named Chen Shunhua, was born to a wealthy merchant’s family in Anbu, a small town in Chaoan County, Guangdong, in 1907.2017, Wang Zheng, “Chen Bo'er and the Feminist Paradigm of Socialist Film”, in Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1964, University of...
    Synonyms:
    Ampow

Synonyms of Anbu

  • Ampow

Origin of Anbu

From Mandarin 庵埠 /菴埠 (Ānbù).

Questions about Anbu

What does Anbu mean?
Anbu means a town in Chao'an district, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.
What part of speech is Anbu?
Anbu is a proper noun.

Words near Anbu in the dictionary

  1. anba
  2. Anbar
  3. Anbaraa
  4. anberries
  5. anberry
  6. Anbu
  7. anburies
  8. anbury
  9. ANC
  10. ANCA
  11. ancap

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