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Chiu-ch'üan

Chiu-ch'üan is the alternative form of Jiuquan.

Meaning of Jiuquan

Proper noun

Jiuquan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.
    • The wind howls outside, but many turbines in Jiuquan, a city of vast deserts and farms in the northwest province of Gansu, have been shut off because of weak demand.2017 January 15, Javier C. Hernández, “It Can Power a Small Nation. But This Wind Farm in China Is Mostly Idle.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2017, Asia...

Origin of Chiu-ch'üan

From Mandarin 酒泉 (Jiǔquán) Wade–Giles romanization: Chiu³-chʻüan².

Questions about Chiu-ch'üan

What is Chiu-ch'üan the alternative form of?
Chiu-ch'üan is the alternative form of Jiuquan.

Words near Chiu-ch'üan in the dictionary

  1. Chitwood
  2. Chitwoods
  3. Chiu
  4. Chiu Chau
  5. Chiu Chow
  6. Chiu-ch'üan
  7. Chiu-chiang
  8. Chiuchow
  9. Chiuchuan
  10. Chiumba
  11. Chiumbi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chiu-ch'üan (page history and authors); Jiuquan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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