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Asan

Asan proper noun: a municipal city in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.

Proper noun

Asan

  1. A municipal city in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
    • This policy of pursuing war and peace simultaneously was also what the Chinese commander Ye Zhizhao^([sic – meaning Zhichao]) in Yashan recommended:[…]
      In mid-July, the British ambassador in Beijing, Nicholas O'Conor remarked that while there were as many as 10,000 Japanese soldiers in Korea, there...[1996 October, Allen Fung, “Testing the Self-Strengthening: The Chinese Army in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895”, in Modern Asian Studies, volume 30, number 4, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 1014

Origin of Asan

Borrowed from Korean 아산(牙山) (Asan).

Questions about Asan

What does Asan mean?
Asan means a municipal city in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
What part of speech is Asan?
Asan is a proper noun.

Words near Asan in the dictionary

  1. Asamoahs
  2. asamodagam
  3. Asamoto
  4. Asamotos
  5. AsAms
  6. Asan
  7. asana
  8. asanas
  9. asanguineous
  10. asanguinous
  11. Asano

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