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Cangnan

Syllables: Cang·nan

Cangnan proper noun: a county of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Proper noun

Cangnan

  1. A county of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
    • It said 81 people were killed in the southeastern city of Wenzhou, including at least 43 people in suburban Cangnan county. Another 11 people were missing in Wenzhou, the agency said.
    • Bodies of the dead in Cangnan, which included eight children, were discovered amid the debris of collapsed houses, Xinhua said.2006 August 11, “Typhoon Saomai kills more than 100 in China - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2022, Asia...

Origin of Cangnan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 蒼南 /苍南 (Cāngnán).

Questions about Cangnan

What does Cangnan mean?
Cangnan means a county of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
What part of speech is Cangnan?
Cangnan is a proper noun.

Words near Cangnan in the dictionary

  1. Cangjie
  2. cangkul
  3. cangkuls
  4. Cangmatnog
  5. Cangmohao
  6. Cangnan
  7. cango
  8. cangos
  9. cangrelor
  10. cangs
  11. cangue

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