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Chiuchuan

Chiuchuan 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 Chiuchuan

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

Questions about Chiuchuan

What is Chiuchuan the alternative form of?
Chiuchuan is the alternative form of Jiuquan.

Words near Chiuchuan in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chiuchuan (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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