Chilung
Chilung proper noun: synonym of Keelung.
Proper noun
Chilung
- Synonym of Keelung.
- No single island in the 19-islet group bears the name of Matsu[.] It is named after a harbor of Nankan, the main island of the group. Nankan is 114 nautical miles west of the northern Taiwan port of Chilung, and 114 nautical miles from Kinmen.
Besides Nankan, other islands in the group are: Peikan...1959, Sampson C. Shen, editor, China Yearbook 1958-1959, Taipei, Taiwan: China Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 99 - The “Beautiful Island” wears a necklace of rails and new roads dangling from Taipei, such as the 17-mile MacArthur Expressway linking the capital to the seaport of Chilung. Taiwan has two other international seaports —recently opened Hualien, on the east coast, and Kaohsiung, facing the mainland a...1964 November, “New Look at Changing China”, in National Geographic Magazine, volume 126, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 641, column 2
- Synonyms:
- Keelung
- No single island in the 19-islet group bears the name of Matsu[.] It is named after a harbor of Nankan, the main island of the group. Nankan is 114 nautical miles west of the northern Taiwan port of Chilung, and 114 nautical miles from Kinmen.
Examples of Chilung in a sentence
- The “Beautiful Island” wears a necklace of rails and new roads dangling from Taipei, such as the 17-mile MacArthur Expressway linking the capital to the seaport of Chilung.1964 November, “New Look at Changing China”, in National Geographic Magazine, volume 126, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 641, column 2:
- Keelung or Chilung five miles southeast of Wanli or 15 miles northeast of Taipei.1969, Florence Drumwright, Taiwan, Eden in Asia, Caves Book Company, →OCLC, page 61, column 2:
- Courbet entrusted him with organizing the defenses of Kelung (Chilung) in Formosa, which France had just seized.2006, Spencer C. Tucker, “Joseph Joffre”, in World War I : A Student Encyclopedia, volume 2, ABC-Clio, →ISBN, page 982:
Synonyms of Chilung
Origin of Chilung
From Mandarin 雞籠 (Jīlóng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chi¹-lung².
Questions about Chilung
- What does Chilung mean?
- Chilung means synonym of Keelung.
- How do you use Chilung in a sentence?
- The “Beautiful Island” wears a necklace of rails and new roads dangling from Taipei, such as the 17-mile MacArthur Expressway linking the capital to the seaport of Chilung.
- What part of speech is Chilung?
- Chilung is a proper noun.
Words near Chilung in the dictionary
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