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Bijie

Syllables: Bi·jie

Bijie proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Guizhou, China.

Proper noun

Bijie

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guizhou, China.
    • At a small city called Pichieh, there was a mission operated by German Lutheran Sisters.[…]
      There was a tremendous canyon beyond Pichieh. It was comparable to the gorge of the Salween on the Burma Road or the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.[1972, Oliver J. Caldwell, “The Great Earth”, in A Secret War: Americans in China, 1944-1945, Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 156
    • In order to popularize the transplanting of rice seedlings with machines, Pi-chieh Prefecture held an on-the-spot meeting in Chin-sha County to publicize this method of transplanting.[1978, Translations on People's Republic of China, numbers 439-447, Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC

Examples of Bijie in a sentence

  • The siblings lived in a house in Guizhou Province, one of the poorest areas in China; their village, Cizhu, is under the administration of the city of Bijie.2015 June 12, Edward Wong, “Chinese Premier Urges Officials to Fight Events That Led 4 Children to Drink Pesticide”, in The New York Times...
  • The landslide sent rubble sweeping over 34 homes in Zhangjiawan township in the city of Bijie, Guizhou province.2017 August 28, Philip Wen, “Mountain collapses on township in China's remote southwest, killing two”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters...

Origin of Bijie

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 畢節 /毕节 (Bìjié).

Questions about Bijie

What does Bijie mean?
Bijie means a prefecture-level city of Guizhou, China.
How do you use Bijie in a sentence?
The siblings lived in a house in Guizhou Province, one of the poorest areas in China; their village, Cizhu, is under the administration of the city of Bijie.
What part of speech is Bijie?
Bijie is a proper noun.

Words near Bijie in the dictionary

  1. bijectivity
  2. bijel
  3. Bijelo Polje
  4. bijels
  5. Bijiang
  6. Bijie
  7. bijillion
  8. bijillions
  9. Bijlmer
  10. Bijlmermeer
  11. Bijnor

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