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Changchien

Changchien proper noun: a surname from Mandarin.

Proper noun

Changchien (plural Changchiens)

  1. A surname from Mandarin.
    • Louis Ozawa Changchien is a Japanese American actor who is casted as Hanzo, one of the people abducted by Predators who must fight for his life in the alien's hunting field on an alien planet.2010 January 8, “Interview with Actor Louis Ozawa Changchien on Upcoming Film "Predators"”, in GIGAZINE
    • Year Zero stars Maureen Sebastian and Louis Ozawa Changchien in the Second Stage Theatre 2010 Uptown Series presentation.2010 May 26, Ernio Hernandez, “Cambodian-American Teen Seeks Change in Second Stage Uptown's Year Zero”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Playbill

Examples of Changchien in a sentence

  • Then a Chinese artist named Lin Bo (played by Louis Ozawa Changchien) enters and recounts how he was jailed for dissidence.2016 August 18, Diep Tran, “Truth, Lies and Chinese Art Inspire ‘a Puzzle Box of a Play’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...
  • Chen lastly visited 100-year-old former martial artist Changchien Chan Ching-yeh (張簡詹清葉) in Daliao District (大寮).2021 October 10, Fang Chih-hsien, Kayleigh Madjar, “Kaohsiung centenarians receive visit from mayor”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Forms of Changchien

pluralChangchiens

Origin of Changchien

Borrowed from Mandarin 張簡 /张简 (Zhāngjiǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Chang¹-chien³.

Questions about Changchien

What does Changchien mean?
Changchien means a surname from Mandarin.
How do you use Changchien in a sentence?
Then a Chinese artist named Lin Bo (played by Louis Ozawa Changchien) enters and recounts how he was jailed for dissidence.
What part of speech is Changchien?
Changchien is a proper noun.

Words near Changchien in the dictionary

  1. Changamwe
  2. Changan
  3. Changbai
  4. changbaiite
  5. changchengite
  6. Changchien
  7. Changchiens
  8. Changchou
  9. Changchow
  10. Changchun
  11. Changde

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