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Chang'an Avenue

Chang'an Avenue proper noun: a street in Beijing, China, which runs past the Forbidden City, Zhongnanhai and other important locations.

Proper noun

Chang'an Avenue

  1. A street in Beijing, China, which runs past the Forbidden City, Zhongnanhai and other important locations.
    • The wall poster, put up on Changan Street in Peiping on March, declared that the Chinese Communist regime should actively promote democracy, especially the democratic system formulated by Dr. Sun Yat-sen.[1979 April 1, “Wallposter call”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 12, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3
    • I was a Communist Party member, and I was leading about 40 students from my college out of Tiananmen Square early on the morning of June 4. The crackdown was pretty much over.
      Several girls were with us, and one was really scared. I told her not to worry, that I'd stay with her. But when we turned...[2001 February 4, Craig S. Smith, “Tiananmen's Shadow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, Section 6, page 52

Origin of Chang'an Avenue

Partial calque from Mandarin 長安街/长安街 (Cháng'ān Jiē).

Questions about Chang'an Avenue

What does Chang'an Avenue mean?
Chang'an Avenue means a street in Beijing, China, which runs past the Forbidden City, Zhongnanhai and other important locations.
What part of speech is Chang'an Avenue?
Chang'an Avenue is a proper noun.

Words near Chang'an Avenue in the dictionary

  1. Chang Jiang
  2. Chang River
  3. Chang Tang
  4. Chang Thang
  5. Chang'an
  6. Chang'an Avenue
  7. chang'd
  8. Chang'e
  9. Chang-ch'iao
  10. Chang-chia-k'ou
  11. Chang-chou

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